News & Updates

Vote for my Movie Pitch in the Amex Pitch Your Movie Contest!
posted on Jun 27 2010 - 12:35pm by alison

 

American Express and Tribeca Film have organized a "MY MOVIE PITCH" contest. For the last month filmmakers with great ideas have been pitching them to their video cameras and posting them online here. Vote for my pitch!

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Homunculus Prods. in production on Gluteus Maxximus, a short documentary
posted on Jun 22 2010 - 1:21pm by alison

He used to be a mechanic working out of his own garage in Indianapolis, driving a limo on the side to feed his family. Now he's the fastest man in the world - the designer and test driver of the Maxximus G-force, a street-legal car that just broke not one but six world records: 0-60 mph (2 seconds); 0-100 mph (4.451 seconds), the 0-100-0 mph mark of 8.861 seconds, the 1/4 mile in 9.7 seconds and 157 mph; and the 0-150mph in 9.3 seconds.

How did a wrestler-turned-car-mechanic from Indianapolis get to be the fastest man in the world?

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Good News for Films Shooting in Florida
posted on Jun 6 2010 - 9:49am by alison

Florida OKs tax breaks for film, TV

Governor creates $242 million transferable credit

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ROGUE, or, how to fundraise for a steampunk film
posted on Jun 5 2010 - 2:47pm by alison

I'm always fascinated by how other filmmakers raise money. This film is particularly intriguing because it looks like steampunk. But can anyone really tell what the story is about?

ROGUE POINT

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CineWomen on Screen: A NYWIFT Series presents A Salute to Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
posted on Apr 26 2010 - 8:55pm by alison

CineWomen on Screen: A NYWIFT Series
April 27, 2010 6:30 PM
The New Filmmakers Anthology
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Guest curators: Alison McMahan and Ylana

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In the Directing Way: Rachel Gordon, Director of In the Family Way
posted on Mar 3 2010 - 10:57am by alison

Serial Short Filmmaking

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Charlene Sun
posted on Feb 3 2010 - 5:00am by alison

A Year Later

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Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie
posted on Jan 21 2010 - 10:40pm by alison

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.

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Short films, Calling Card Films, Thesis Films, & Distributing Short Films
posted on Jan 19 2010 - 12:48pm by alison

War Stories about Making and Distributing A Calling Card Film

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NYWIFT presents...CineWomen on Screen November 23rd, The New Filmmakers Anthology 6:30 pm
posted on Nov 15 2009 - 1:24pm by alison

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

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