Savannah Leaf
Visiting Filmmaker, MFA in Film
Alison Maclean
Visiting Filmmaker
Profile
Alison Maclean (born July 31, 1958) is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex and the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life on the Street), commercials, and feature films. Her works include the music video “Torn” (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film KITCHEN SINK (1989) and the feature films JESUS’ SON (1999) (starring Billy Crudup) and CRUSH (1992) (starring Marcia Gay Harden).
She has been the recipient of several awards (e.g., Best Short Film, TALKBACK [1987] and KITCHEN SINK [1989], New Zealand Film Awards) and often uses themes of communication, gender roles, and power structures in her directorial and filmmaking roles