Bare Hands Wooden Limbs
Cambodia, Living with Landmines
Maxximus G-Force
Risk Everything Graphic by Katerina Athanasopoulou
Imprinted Graphic by Mark Moorer
Centaur maxximus motion website
Destroying Angel graphic by Mark Moorer
8 Faces of Jane

About Homunculus Productions

The word "homunculus" refers to a functioning system thought to be run by a "little man" that lives inside it. Such a system includes human beings, as some inner entity or agent is somehow assumed to be in our brains, making things run. One example of this was Descartes' use of the homunculus to resolve his theory of dualism, that the soul and the body are two completely separate entities. He posited a "little man" behind the eye to process visual stimuli. Of course, this immediately raises the question of who is behind the "little man's" eyes - another little man (or a little woman)? And so on, ad infinitum.

Homunculus Productions, LLC, produces training films, industrials, PSAs, documentaries, and occasionally, fiction films. We are the homunculus that translates the world from your eyes to your brain.

About Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan, President, Homunculus Productions, is a filmmaker and award-winning screenwriter. 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 »

News & Updates

posted on Apr 26 2012 - 9:39am by alison

My sci fi thriller screenplay, Imprinted, has earned me one of five spots in the coveted Good to Go event at the Female Eye Film Festival

Good to Goers get to pitch our projects -- the winning project and anything else we bring to pitch -- to a roster of producers. 

The event takes place in Toronto in June, but has already inspired me to do a polish. Now all I have to do is hold my breath until then.

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posted on Feb 25 2012 - 6:36pm by alison

There is an award ceremony on tonight at 10pm. Many of my readers have never heard of it, but it has consumed my free time for the last two months. It’s the Independent Spirit Awards, which have been given out by the voting members of Film Independent  or FIND (previously known as IFP/West) since 1984. Going along with its indie spirit, the awards are held as a luncheon on the beach in Santa Monica, the day before the Oscars. If you weren’t present at that lunch you can catch them tonight at 10 pm ET/PT on the IFC Channel. This year’s nominees are listed here.  

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posted on Feb 22 2012 - 12:17pm by alison

Last weekend saw the inauguration of the first Moving Image Xchange International Short Film Festival (The Mix). My short screenplay, Sister Secrets, was one of 12 finalist screenplays, so I decided to attend. The festival screened 39 short films at the lovely Byrd Theatre in Richmond, VA.

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