Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager and later attended Elam Art School in Auckland. After making Kitchen Sink (1989), still arguably the most successful short film to come out of New Zealand, and her debut feature, Crush (1992), which played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, she moved to New York in 1992. Her second feature, Jesus’ Son, was rated among the ten best films of 1999 by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Roger Ebert. Her subsequent work includes the documentary Persons of Interest (2004); episodes of Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Carnivàle, The L-Word, Homicide: Life on the Street, Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays, and The Tudors; and TV commercials and music videos, including Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” Her latest film, The Rehearsal, was an official selection of Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
Biography via Criterion.
