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	SPLICEDwire \| Allison Anders/Kurt Voss feature (1999)
		Both creenwriters and directors, Allison Anders and Kurt Voss have been friends ever since film school, where together they wrote "Border Radio," a rock star on the run romp that was shot in 1998, with the two directing together after they both got their degrees.
		Anders: Well, I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows, during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.
		Anders and Voss are currently working on another music-centric film called "Things Behind the Sun," with John Taylor, Liam Gallagher of Oasis and his wife, actress Patsy Kensit.
	www.splicedonline.com /features/andersvoss.html (1115 words)

	FosterClub \| Famous Foster Youth - Allison Anders
		Allison Anders is a successful writer and director, one of the few women directors who have been able to sustain a career in independent film.
		Allison graduated from the university’s famous film school where she won several prestigious awards, including the valuable Nicholas Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and sciences and the Samuel Goldwyn award for her screenplay “Lost Highway”.
		Allison Anders is the mother of three children: Tiffany, Devon and Ruben, and currently lives in the Santa Barbara, California area.
	www.fosterclub.com /funstuff/fam_fosterKids/allisonAnders.cfm (791 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 25-5 JANUARY 2001
		Anders laughs as she recalls: "If I had been shooting film, I never would have been able to run down to the beach and sneak in these beautiful shots.
		Anders eschewed the rapid-fire movement that has become a hallmark of the lightweight DV equipment, opting instead to lock down the camera and let the actors' movement within the frame tell the story.
		Although Anders goes so far as to say her digital experience on Things Behind the Sun was "without a downside," it's the overall promise of DV which excites Anders the most.
	www.dga.org /news/v25_5/Indie_Anders.php3 (950 words)

	Women in Film News Deep Ellum Film Festival
		Allison Anders is a deeply personal filmmaker who has used her own experience to make grittily realistic and compelling studies of working class women coming of age amid tough, sterile social conditions.
		Anders weathered a rough childhood and young adult life which not only encouraged a penchant for making up characters but also an insider's sympathy for the strong but put-upon women who people her films.
		Allison has said of her work that she holds a mirror up to the life around her and these two films are the clearest examples of that ideology.
	www.wifdallas.org /WomeninFilmNewsDeepEllumFilmFestival.asp (831 words)

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		Anders had made three critically acclaimed films which told stories from a woman's perspective, and Voss had directed a handful of films which ended up either faltering on cable or delving into obscurity.
		Anders and Voss were looking to recapture that independent spirit which was so evident in "Border Radio", and decided to conceive and make a movie without any hassle.
		Allison Anders is, in my opinion, a talent with strong views, but a knack for inconsistency.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-6098-7BFB659-38EFDF4F-prod6 (780 words)

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		Watching a film by Allison Anders and knowing her background one can not help but notice the strength of her characters despite the often cruel swipes that life takes at them.
		Anders followed up on a devoted correspondence she had begun back in film school with her favourite director, Wim Wenders looking to get a film job.
		It is said of Anders work that she holds a mirror up to the life around her and these two films are the clearest example of the vision and intent behind Anders work.
	www.dealmemo.com /People/Allison_Anders.htm (661 words)

	Artist in Profile: Allison Anders - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Professor Allison Anders is the director of such films as “Mi vida loca” and “Four Rooms” and is recognized as one of the premiere female directors in the United States.
		Allison Anders was kind enough to sit down with Artsweek one afternoon after her class entitled “Don’t Knock the Rock,” which covers rock music and its presence in cinema.
		Allison Anders: What happened was Janet Walker, now the Film Studies Dept. chair, was a teaching assistant down at UCLA.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /artsweek/2005/10502.html (1167 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Allison Anders
		The hardships encountered and overcome by director Allison Anders are often reflected in the grittiness and strength of her female characters, a quality that lends her stories a tough but refreshing honesty.
		Anders' approach to this kind of storytelling has given her distinction in the film industry and she continues to make films that challenge conventional attitudes toward both women and films about women.
		Anders rebounded somewhat in 1996, with her next feature, Grace of My Heart, a fictional biography of a female singer/songwriter during the 1960s that was very loosely based on the life of singer/songwriter Carole King.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/69981/bio.jhtml (648 words)

	Allison Anders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anders spent her youth running away from home and hitching across the States, often ending up in jail or foster homes, though she now sees this as giving her inspiration for her cinematic portraits of real life.
		While a single mother raising two daughters on welfare, Anders started writing a book about teen movies and although the book was never published she decided she wanted to write about film.
		Anders subscribes to the notion that is put forward by Gloria Steinham, that women intended to fight the political battles first and then get to the personal but that the reverse has happened: "That's what a lot of us are finding.
	www.centimes.demon.co.uk /Garden/Ossuary/anders.html (914 words)

	Gas Food Lodging
		Allison Anders' 1992 directorial debut, Gas Food Lodging, offers an honest, unflinching and heartwarming glimpse of the pain, struggles and joys shared by mothers and daughters.
		Anders’ characters face a variety of modern social ills: from deadbeat fathers, to Trudi’s rape to the racism that Javier must deal with.
		Unlike many filmmakers, Anders trusts her audience to discern the difference between right and wrong, and for Anders' characters, life's shortcomings are simply the realities they must navigate every day.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cult_cinema/91461 (484 words)

	Anders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though Anders borrows from (or better yet is inspired by) Wenders, her films are wholly personal, dangerously original, and feminist (perhaps this is the more dangerous aspect of her films).
		Anders’ refusal to deliver explicit sex in her films that are full of sexual energy and power illustrates her upheaval and teasing of the male gaze.
		Anders does not create box-office blockbusters, but she does open up a window to the lives of everyday women, which have never before been depicted realistically or fairly on the big screen.
	www.gettysburg.edu /academics/english/jryan/Mavericks/Projects/AllisonAnders (5346 words)

	Allison Anders
		Director Allison Anders is angry about many things, including the oppressed status of women in Hollywood.
		From Entertainment Weekly 7/22/94: "Anders says she was sexually abused throughout her childhood by a number of different men, and raped at age 12 by some teenagers.
		Traveling frequently with her mother and sisters, Anders would later be [gang] raped at age 12, endure abuse from a stepfather who once threatened her with a gun, and suffer a mental breakdown at age 15.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/allison_anders.htm (1113 words)

	Current Trends /Hanging Out with the Homegirls? Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca by Rosa Linda Fregoso - San Diego Latino ...
		Anders even followed the lead of one of her favorite films, Salt of the Earth, by welcoming community gang members to comment and advise her on the script.
		In contrast to her male counterparts, Anders focuses on a much ignored segment of Chicano gang culture: the female members.
		Anders' fictional narrative has little to do with the life and culture of Chicanas.
	www.sdlatinofilm.com /trends7.html (1803 words)

	Columbia News ::: Columbia's Film Division Previews Allison Anders' New Film
		Feature filmmaker Allison Anders screened her new autobiographical film, "Things Behind the Sun," to group of Columbia University film students, as part of the Film Division's Carla Kuhn Guest Speaker Series, last week.
		Anders, a high school dropout, recovering alcoholic and 1995 winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (commonly referred to as a "genius" grant), explores the traumatic impact that the rape had on her life.
		Anders, who has gained a reputation as a voice of the strong and often tormented working-class woman with films like "Gas Food Lodging" and "Grace of My Heart," spoke candidly with students about how the rape overshadowed everything she did for the next 30 years.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/08/allisonAnders.html (248 words)

	Film Culture \| Behind the scenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Now 46, Anders says, "I have dealt with my childhood rape in therapy, through acting out sexually, through self-medication, through spiritual work, by making public confessions, by every means possible, but I was still in a dark place.
		Anders does herself over as Florida-based rocker Sherry (Kim Dickens, a blonde Sheryl Crow), whose promising career keeps getting derailed by her promiscuous misadventures and by her troubles with alcohol.
		Anders uses as a locale the very house where, more than 30 years ago, she was victimized, and she plays again the song — the Left Banke’s "Pretty Ballerina" — that she heard as various teenage boys brutalized her.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/film/documents/01990185.htm (715 words)

	INTERVIEW: Here Comes "the Sun"; Allison Anders Out of the Past
		Anders: Crews have to work around all that energy; the crew had a tough time, knowing that that was the house.
		Anders: I don't think that people generally know what the hell they're talking about when they put a rape in a movie.
		Anders: Yes, I found in my research that there's this terrible racist misconception: that as of 1995, the majority of people in this country when they conjured up an image of a rapist, it was generally fl-man-in-alley-with-knife.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Anders_Allison_010817.html (2362 words)

	A&L News Release - Fall 2002 Film Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Allison Anders is one of the few women directors to achieve a sustained career in independent film.
		Anders’ most recent film, Things Behind the Sun, is loosely based on her own traumatic experience of being raped as a young girl.
		Anders is the mother of three children and has recently moved to the Santa Barbara area.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2002-2003/pr/anders.asp (571 words)

	InView \| Allison Anders
		In Allison Anders 1992 trailer-park melodrama, Gas, Food, Lodging, she began to develop a reputation for writing strong female characters.
		Allison Anders talks about how her own life has inspired the characters in her films.
		Allison Anders (AA): I was raised in a family of women, and we don’t always get along.
	inview.kqed.org /interviews/45/interview.html (75 words)

	jmdl LIBRARY: La Dulce Cinema: Independent Feature Project, February 1999
		Allison Anders and Kurt Voss have collaborated through life as much as through their films.
		Through Anders' and Voss' lifelong devotion to music and its creators, their film puts music fans and Superstars on the same level by conveying stories of disappointment, redemption, love, and the surprises in life that no one, no matter how wealthy or successful, can prepare for.
		Anders: With Grace of My Heart, what I tried to do is take a song and say it had to have a certain lyrical content-it should be about a wedding and it should sound like either Chapel of Love or Today I Met The Boy I'm Gonna Marry.
	www.jmdl.com /library/print.cfm?id=727 (2649 words)

	Entertainment Weekly : Her crazy life: for 'Mi Vida Loca' director Allison Anders, film is therapy, and therapy's a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Start / E / Entertainment Weekly / July 22, 1994 / Her crazy life: for 'Mi Vida Loca' director Allison Anders, film is therapy, and therapy's a must.
		Her crazy life: for 'Mi Vida Loca' director Allison Anders, film is therapy, and therapy's a must.
		ALLISON ANDERS is talking melodrama, the kind she puts on the screen and the kind that happens in real life.
	static.highbeam.com /e/entertainmentweekly/july221994/hercrazylifeformividalocadirectorallisonandersfilm/index.html (284 words)

	From Dusk Till Dawn With Quentin Tarantino
		In Anders' piece, Ted is summoned to a suite where a coven of witches (Madonna, in Mae West drag, is the group's leader) are at work on a magic potion.
		Anders fleshes things out by having two of the witches take their tops off as they woo-woo over the cauldron.
		The first story, "Strange Brew," by Allison Anders, centers on a coven of modern witches who have come to use their power to resurrect Diana, their goddess (who is also a burlesque dancer).
	tarantino.m4d.com /Filmography/four_rooms.shtml (743 words)

	Seven Who Use Their Lives to Change Ours
		Anders' previous films had been released to art houses and garnered her a MacArthur "genius" award in 1997, but this film she wanted to reach the widest possible audience.
		It also produced a prize Anders did not expect: She was embraced by Generation Five, a new organization committed to ending child sexual abuse in five generations.
		In her teens, Anders fled her home and the memory of a gang rape by school friends to hitchhike across the country.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/771 (3431 words)

	Sugar Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Allison Anders -- one of the few enduring women directors, with such efforts as Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, and Grace of My Heart -- is driving in LA and talking on a cell phone.
		With 30 significant characters (all memorable, especially Beverly D'Angelo in a brief turn as a potential wealthy backer, a brassy broad who doesn't mind admitting that she got where she is on her back), the interlinking plot lines, and the pop-music background, comparisons to Robert Altman's Nashville are inevitable.
		Anders, though, has none of Altman's bite, artistry, or bile, which means her characters have a chance at a happy ending.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/04/08/SUGAR_TOWN.html (1294 words)

	Zap2it: Allison Anders to Present 'Head' As Part of AFI's 'Cinema Legacy' Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A self-avowed Monkees fan, Anders admits that she didn't always appreciate the film, which was released as the TV series was coming to an end.
		Anders is no stranger to films about musicians, which appears to be a recurring theme in her work as seen in the films "Grace of My Heart," "Sugar Town" and "Behind the Sun." Her other credits include "Gas, Food and Lodging" and "Mi Vida Loca."
		Aside from scripting a project for HBO, teaching and writing her first novel, Anders is also pursuing her interest in rock films by organizing a film festival of the genre slated to take place in August in Los Angeles.
	www.zap2it.com /movies/news/pstory/0,3382,16973,00.html (581 words)

	Grace of My Heart . Weekly Alibi . 09-18-96
		Allison Anders (Gas Food and Lodging, Mi Vida Loca) is possibly one of the best female filmmakers of our time.
		After all, she's Allison Anders; she's notorious for bringing to the screen issues of race, class and gender.
		The film is an epic journey of one woman's drive to literally find her voice in the male-dominated music industry of the '60s and early '70s.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/g/graceofmyheart_f.html (569 words)

	Film Comment: A Sort Of Homecoming - new film by Allison Anders - Brief Article
		Following a 17-day shoot this past summer, Allison Anders is nearing completion on her widescreen DV feature Things Behind the Sun, co-written with Sugar Town partner Kurt Voss.
		Set in the Cocoa Beach, Fla., neighborhood where Anders spent her formative years, the film stars Gabriel Mann (High Art) as a music journalist who returns to his hometown to interview a self-destructive local musician (star-waiting-to-happen Kim Dickens).
		Anders, who hopes to finish in time for Sundance, was initally skeptical about DY.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1069/is_6_36/ai_67328521 (227 words)

	Allison Anders @ Filmbug
		Allison Anders has established herself as one of the few women filmmakers directing films with strong female characters and themes.
		Raised in rural Kentucky, Anders spent her teens hitchhiking across the country, resulting in a series of adventures that often ended in jails and foster homes -- experiences she credits with giving her raw inspiration for her cinematic portraits of rural Americans.
		Anders' next film, Mi Vida Loca, which she wrote and directed, had its World Premiere at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
	www.filmbug.com /db/26731 (461 words)

	Sugar Town
		With anyone but Allison Anders at the helm, Sugar Town could have been a riotously funny satire of the vagaries of fame: the actors seem game for self-parody, and the milieu (over the hill L.A. rockers desperate to make this month's mortgage) is rife with possibilities.
		But Anders did write and direct (with Kurt Voss), and the result is a soap opera mired in good intentions.
		Anders has real empathy for her older female characters: she understands their frustrations and compromises.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SugarTown.htm (552 words)

	Things Behind the Sun
		Anders’ stories typically unfold slowly, with a shambling style-of-no-style that sometimes seems raggedy but always comes together by the end, and most importantly, she shows what needs to be seen.
		This isn’t Hollywoodized trailer-park America; Anders knows this territory (she grew up in the film’s south Florida locations) and she explores the sun-baked ugliness like a child flipping over rocks and watching bugs scatter.
		Anders’ characters speak their minds, but they never make speeches.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/ThingsBehindtheSun.htm (533 words)

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