Allison Anders

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RECENT CREDITS

Indie Sex: Taboos (TV) Aug. 2, 2007

What About Brian (TV) Dec. 4, 2006

Men in Trees (TV) Sep. 15, 2006

This Film is Not Yet Rated (FILM) Sep. 1, 2006

The L Word (TV) Mar. 19, 2006

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HIGHLIGHTS

2001 With Voss, co-wrote "Things Behind the Sun", a drama about a young female rock musician coping with a rape; also directed; premiered at Sundance Film Festival; sold to Showtime; inspired by events fro

1999 Reteamed with Voss to co-write and co-direct the comedy-drama "Sugar Town", about a group of aging musicians; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

1997 Executive produced "Lover Girl", on which Lent was director of photography

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The Johnny Cash Project

Director

CITY AT PEACE (MTV Films)

Screenplay

Film

Drive-Away Dykes

Director

Film

Smile Now Cry Later

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Film

Unicorns

Executive Producer

Film

Men in Trees 2006

Director

Power Shift (2006) -Director

Director

TV Episode

This Film is Not Yet Rated 2006 -Interviewee

Actor

Film

What About Brian 2006

Director

What About First Steps... (2006) -Director

Director

TV Episode

The L Word 2004

Director

Last Dance (2006) -Director

Director

TV Episode

Cold Case 2003

Director

Volunteers (2004) -Director

Director

TV Episode

Intimate Portrait: Rosanna Arquette 2003 -Interviewee

Actor

In the Company of Women 2003

Actor

Film

Things Behind The Sun 2001

Director, Screenplay

Indie Sex: Taboos 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

Grosse Pointe 2000

Director

Intimate Portrait: Ally Sheedy 1999 -Interviewee

Actor

Sundance Film Festival Live 1999 -Host

Actor

Sugar Town 1999

Director, Screenplay

Film

The Five Senses 1999

Special Thanks

Film

Sex and the City 1999-2000

Director

the big time (2000) -Director

Director

TV Episode

drama queens (2000) -Director

Director

TV Episode

la douleur exquise! (1999) -Director

Director

TV Episode

the caste system (1999) -Director

Director

TV Episode

Lover Girl 1998

Executive Producer

Film

Grace of My Heart 1996

Director, Screenplay

Film

Four Rooms 1995

Director, Screenplay

Film

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder 1994

Actor

Mi Vida Loca - My Crazy Life 1994

Director, Screenplay

Film

Independent Spirit: Close Up 1993

Actor

Totally F***ed Up 1993

Special Thanks

Film

Gas Food Lodging 1992

Director, Screenplay

Film

Border Radio 1988

Director, Screenplay

Film

Paris, Texas 1984

Production Assistant

Film

Sundance20 -Herself

Actor

Film

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Highlights

2001 With Voss, co-wrote "Things Behind the Sun", a drama about a young female rock musician coping with a rape; also directed; premiered at Sundance Film Festival; sold to Showtime; inspired by events fro

1999 Reteamed with Voss to co-write and co-direct the comedy-drama "Sugar Town", about a group of aging musicians; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

1997 Executive produced "Lover Girl", on which Lent was director of photography

1996 Wrote and directed "Grace of My Heart", about a female singer struggling to make it in the music business in the 1950s and 1960s; executive produced by Martin Scorsese

1995 Awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant ($255,000)

1995 Signed two-year deal with Miramax Films to write, produce and direct features

1995 Helmed and scripted the "Strange Brew" segment of "Four Rooms"

1994 Actor Hugh Grant backed out of Anders' "Paul Is Dead" project a scant month before shooting was to start, and funding disappeared with him

1994 Won praise for "Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life", her authentic picture about Latina gang members; shot film only a month after the Los Angeles riots of 1992

1992 First solo directorial effort, "Gas Food Lodging", for which she also wrote the screenplay, based on a novel by Richard Peck; Lent served as director of photography

1987 Feature film directorial and screenwriting debut, "Border Radio" (b&w, 16mm), co-directed and co-written with fellow UCLA film students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent

1986 Moved to the Echo Park section of Los Angeles shortly after graduating from UCLA; supported herself and her daughters for a time with money from a screenwriting grant she had received

1984 First feature film credit, as a production assistant on Wim Wenders' film, "Paris, Texas"

1973 Moved to London at age 18 to live with an English-born philosophy student she had met on the Greyhound she took to move back to Kentucky (date approximate)

1973 - 1974 Worked as a barmaid in London until she got pregnant; when lover did not want her to have baby, moved back to Los Angeles alone and supported herself and child with welfare and with work as a waitress

1972 Dropped out of high school at age 17; headed back to Kentucky by bus to live with other relatives (date approximate)

1970 Family settled in Los Angeles when Anders was 15; stepfather at one point pulled a gun on her (date approximate)

1970 Was placed in a mental hospital in Los Angeles at age 15 because of suicidal feelings and a retreat into a fantasy world; depression exacerbated by, among other things, the widely circulated rumors of

1967 Was gang-raped at age 12 (date approximate)

Raised in Kentucky until father left family when Anders was five; mother moved her around a great deal thereafter

Attended junior college (dates approximate)

Returned to junior college for another two years after the birth of her second daughter (dates approximate)

Was accepted by, and attended, UCLA's film school, beginning in the early 1980s

Became fascinated with the films of Wim Wenders; sent the filmmaker dozens of letters, some of which were as long as 60 pages, as well as audiocassettes of music she liked; Wenders only wrote back a f