Narrative Films

Alison McMahan has taught screenwriting courses at the Emerson College Extension Program in the Netherlands and the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, in Pleasantville, NY. She has given one-day workshops in venues as diverse as Kansas University, in Lawrence, Kansas, the Free University of Amsterdam (VUU), and the Dance Lab at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, both in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She writes all of the scripts for the non-fiction films she produces. A sample of  her narrative screenplays are listed below.

feature

Rub-A-Dub


in development

Rub-a-Dub (working title) is a feature film adaptation of the short story “Rub-a-Dub” by Daniel Galouye, whose novel Simulacron-3 became the film The 13th Floor (1999). Homunculus Productions, LLC, has a four year option on “Rub-a-Dub” and Alison McMahan is working on the screenplay.


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Heaven Sent


Horror/Thriller
in development 2010

Heaven Sent

Feature Length Screenplay.

Supernatural Thriller by John Leary and Alison McMahan.

PITCH LINE: People know about sleepwalkers, but what about sleepkillers.


LOGLINE: A woman is arrested for hunting down and killing known murderers in her sleep, but soon the feds realize she could be used to their advantage.

SYNOPSIS:

Kelly Thrones is a serial killer of serial killers. Or is she? All the FBI knows is that she's the only one who can prevent a meltdown at the Blue Jay Nuclear Power Plant.

BLURB


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short

Saint, Sinner, Lotto Winner!


in development

Who is watching your kids?


A short screenplay by Alison McMahan and John Leary. Based on the one-act play, Lola, by Alison McMahan.

SYNOPSIS:

Not only does Dolores, Maggie and Martha's new Nanny, seem like the best thing since Mary Poppins, she also has a special skill at picking winning lottery numbers, a gift from Santa Cristina, her patron Saint. The trouble starts when Dolores relies on Santa Cristina for more than the occasional infusion of cash.


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student
Union Square - a film by Alison McMahan

Union Square


NYU MFA Graduate Film
complete 1986

UNION SQUARE, (1986) color, 16mm. 20 mins.

SYNOPSIS:

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?

 

Union Square was written and directed by Alison McMahan as her graduate thesis film while completing her Masters in Film Production at New York University.

 

 


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