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Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director.
Allison Anders. Director: Gas Food Lodging. Anders weathered a rough childhood and young adult life which not only encouraged an escapist penchant for making up characters but also an insider's sympathy for the strong but put-upon women who people her films.
Allison Anders. Director: Gas Food Lodging. Anders weathered a rough childhood and young adult life which not only encouraged an escapist penchant for making up characters but also an insider's sympathy for the strong but put-upon women who people her films.
Allison Anders is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker. In 1995 she was the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” and in 2002 she won a George Foster Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service for her semi-autobiographical film Things Behind the Sun.
Jun 18, 2018 · Alamo Drafthouse flies Anders up from Los Angeles to show and discuss Mi Vida Loca at 7pm on Tuesday, June 19. The theater is showing a French-subtitled print, an oddity that kind of fits with the director’s improbable, unpredictable career.
Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American film and television director. Anders has directed many independent films, on which she frequently collaborates with fellow UCLA film school graduate Kurt Voss.
Allison Anders’s 1994 film Mi Vida Loca follows the stories of young Chicanas in the pre-gentrification Los Angeles neighborhood Echo Park. The women portrayed are rebellious, independent and emotionally complex, recalling Los Bros Hernandez’s Locas stories.
Jul 1, 1994 · Allison Anders’ films are primarily concerned with how women see the world. In Gas Food Lodging , a waitress and her two daughters (Brooke Adams, Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk) come to terms with sexual, emotional and familial lives.
Growing up in rural Kentucky, Allison Anders survived a brutal gang rape age 12; three years later she fled to LA with her mother and sister after her stepfather threatened her with a gun. When she enrolled at UCLA film school a few years later, she was a single mother getting by on waitressing and welfare.
May 15, 2017 · In addition to her seminal hit, “Gas, Food Lodging,” Anders made several terrific female-centric films over the next decade, including “Mi Vida Loca” about a girl gang in Los Angeles; “Things...
