News & Updates

In the Directing Way: Rachel Gordon, Director of In the Family Way

Submitted by alison on March 3, 2010 - 9:57am

Serial Short Filmmaking  Read more »

Charlene Sun

Submitted by alison on February 3, 2010 - 4:00am

A Year Later  Read more »

Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie

Submitted by alison on January 21, 2010 - 9:40pm

See my guest blog on Steampunk and the recent movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, on Alicia Rasley's excellent blog on everything a writer needs to know.

Short films, Calling Card Films, Thesis Films, & Distributing Short Films

Submitted by alison on January 19, 2010 - 11:48am

War Stories about Making and Distributing A Calling Card Film  Read more »

NYWIFT presents...CineWomen on Screen November 23rd, The New Filmmakers Anthology 6:30 pm

Submitted by alison on November 15, 2009 - 12:24pm

Women in the Reel World
Sarcasm, sycophancy, a dead aim,
and other useful tools for coping with the everyday

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NYWIFT Show and Grow series features new work by Lili white

Submitted by alison on November 10, 2009 - 12:19pm

THE NEXT SHOW AND GROW SCREENING AT NYWIFT IS NOVEMBER 17th! Register Now!

 

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ABBIE CANCELLED at the BIG APPLE FILM FESTIVAL

Submitted by alison on October 26, 2009 - 9:38am

The Continuing Adventures of Jessica Burstein and her short film comedy

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

Submitted by alison on October 18, 2009 - 3:08pm

Paranormal Activity: a "found footage" feature

that plays on our basic anxieties about relationships

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ABBIE CANCELLED at the EAST HAMPTON FILM FESTIVAL

Submitted by alison on October 8, 2009 - 5:26am

Or, the Indie world of Short Films

As I mentioned in my blog entry on the Indepdendent Film Week, one piece of advice given to indie filmmakersis to make your films short, shoot and distribute them digitally, and build up your audiences through data-mining.

Jessica Burstein is doing just that with her short, Abbie Cancelled.  Read more »

Mamachas del Ring

Submitted by alison on October 4, 2009 - 9:36pm

Why do we tell the stories we tell?

When I was at the IFP Conference a few days ago I met another filmmaker, Betty M. Park. Betty was on vacation in Boliva over three years ago when she discovered the world of women's wrestling, Bolivian style. This inspired her to make Mamachas del Ring, the story of Carmen Rosa and the other women on her wrestling team, indigienous women who take their petticoats and bowler hat into the ring.

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INDIE FILMMAKING IN THE 2010s

Submitted by alison on September 28, 2009 - 7:14pm

Independent Film Week 2009: How Depressing Does It Get?

Homunculus Productions recently moved its base from New York to the Fort Lauderdale Area, but I still go up to NY regularly to check out what’s going on in the indie film scene, run the Show and Grow Program for New York Women in Film,  and keep up with my filmmaking friends.  Read more »

About Alison McMahan

Submitted by admin on August 16, 2009 - 1:36pm

Alison McMahan, Ph.D., is a writer and filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions and Homunculus Music. She has over twenty years of experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad. From 2001-2003 she held a Mellon Fellowship in Visual Culture at Vassar College where she built a virtual reality environment with a biofeedback interface for CAVEs.  Read more »