Allison Anders

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Allison Anders

Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954 in Ashland , Kentucky ) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer.

Life

Anders made her directorial debut in 1987 with the joint project Border Radio - Grenzstation , which was nominated in 1989 for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Film. Other directors and scriptwriters involved in this were Kurt Voss and Dean Lent. She also wrote the script for the majority of her subsequent feature films.

For her first independent film Gas Food Lodging , she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1992 in the category of Best First Work. She was also nominated in two categories at the 1993 Independent Spirit Awards . The film was also included in the competition at the 1992 Berlin International Film Festival .

Her best-known film is the episode film Four Rooms from 1995, in which Robert Rodriguez , Quentin Tarantino and Alexandre Rockwell were also involved as directors. In the same year she received a MacArthur Fellowship .

Since 1999 she has mainly worked for television. Anders initially staged four episodes of the series Sex and the City , then mostly individual episodes for productions like Men in Trees (2006) or The L Word - When Women Love Women (2006) followed. She was nominated for an Emmy for her television film Ring of Fire (2013) .

In 2008 her works were shown in the retrospective at the Hof International Film Festival.

Since 1997 she has also worked as an executive producer.

Filmography (selection)

Director

script

  • 1992: Gas Food Lodging
  • 1995: Four Rooms
  • 1996: Grace of my Heart

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personal data
SURNAME Different, Allison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashland , Kentucky , United States