Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan, Ph.D., is a documentary filmmaker and president of Homunculus Productions, LLC, a company that produces training films, industrials and documentaries. Recent films include the training film Living With Landmines, and an industrial and a PSA for Pensamento Digital, an NGO in Brazil that provides computers and internet access to poor communities. Her latest documentary is Bare Hands And Wooden Limbs (2008), narrated by Sam Waterston. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary, The Eight Faces Of Jane: The Life And Work Of Jane Chambers.

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 (computer automated virtual environments). From 1997 to 2001 she was an associate professor, teaching film history and theory and new media at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of the award-winning book Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Cinematic Visionary (Continuum 2002) and The Films Of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action In Hollywood (Continuum 2005).

She was co-president of Cinewomen NY, an all-volunteer organization that supports women filmmakers, especially filmmakers just starting out. See www.cinewomenny.org. She spearheaded the recent joining of forces between Cinewomen NY and New York Women in Film and Television.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

Homunculus Productions, LLC - www.homunculusprods.com

Alison's Scholarly Website - www.alisonmcmahan.com

Cambodia: Living with Landmines
McMahan Center Abilities Activists and the World Rehabilitation Fund together developed and carried out a peer-to-peer vocational training program. Homunculus Productions produced a training film to enable social workers anywhere to replicate the program.

Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs, narrated by Sam Waterston
The experience of producing the training film Cambodia, Living with Landmines inspired Alison McMahan to produce a documentary for the general public about this extraordinary village and the two men who lead them.

CineWomen NY - www.cinewomenny.org

Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Cinematic Visionary - www.lostvisionary.com

The Films Of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action In Hollywood - www.filmsoftimburton.com