Narrative Films
Alison McMahan is co-author of the award-winning horror/thriller feature screenplay Heaven Sent. She 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. She writes all of the scripts for the non-fiction films she produces. A sample of her narrative screenplays are listed below.
Rub-A-DubSci-Fi thriller based on short story by Daniel Galouye in development PITCH: Her Destiny was to save the Earth. Now she has to save her soul. LOGLINE: A young girl has to be imprinted with the psyches of three grown, male astronauts: her father, her love, and a pilot who turns out to be a psychopath, in order to go into space and save a dying earth. Read about this project... |
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Heaven SentHorror/Thriller in development 2010 HEAVEN SENT
Feature Length Screenplay 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.
AWARDS:
FINAL DRAFT Big Break Screenplay Competition -SEMIFINALIST (Aug. 2010) That means our script made the top 200 out of 3500+ scripts submitted.
2010 Jacksonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition: Finalist! Means we pitch to a panel in October!
SoCal Film Fest 2010 Feature Length Screenplay Semifinalist (Summer, 2010)
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Saint, Sinner, Lotto Winner!Horror short screenplay by Alison McMahan and John Leary in development PITCH: Who is watching your kids?
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. Read about this project... |
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Union SquareNYU 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?
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY: 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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