Alison McMahan is an award winning author, screenwriter and documentary producer. She writes all of the scripts for the non-fiction films she produces. A sample of her narrative screenplays are listed below. For more information about her fiction and non-fiction books, go here.
She has taught screenwriting courses at the Emerson College Extension Program in the Netherlands, the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center in Pleasantville, NY, at Kansas University, in Lawrence, Kansas, the Free University of Amsterdam (VUU), and the Dance Lab at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten.
Miami 2080: Ten years after the floods. Teenaged Vivien embarks on an eight year space mission to save Earth; alone except for the minds of three brilliant astronauts... and a psychopath... imprinted in her brain.
A failed writer is possessed by Franz Kafka; it is up to his wife to free him. But does she really want to?
Puerto Rico, 1917. Fernando, a poor Carib, invents a new white rum. He and the woman he loves are blocked from selling it by their new US Citizenship, Prohibition, and her brother, the island's biggest distiller.
Brianna has to outsmart her torturers, get back at her con-man fiancé, and escape from the trunk of a car all at the same time.
A successful saleswoman is arrested for hunting down and killing known murderers in her sleep, but soon the law realizes she can help them find the killers before they strike again.
A young man about town steps out for an evening of fun but stops to perform what he thinks is an act of kindness. Or is it?