Alison Bagnall

Writing

Biography

Alison Bagnall is an American director, writer and producer. Before collaborating with Vincent Gallo on Buffalo '66 (1998), Alison wrote and directed numerous short films, including One Night Stand starring Pasolini's leading man, actor Franco Citti featured at the Florence International Festival of Independent Cinema and Love Perfect, which screened at festivals at Bellaria and Torino, Italy; in Annecy, France, and was bought by Italian television for broadcast. Alison is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied Humanities, along with theater and directing. After Yale, she was a directing fellow at the American Film Institute where she made three short films. While at AFI, she also directed an episode of 'Femmes" for the French television channel M6. After Buffalo '66, Ms. Bagnall joined up with another actor/writer Savannah Haske for her next project. That project became Piggie (2003), which was shot on location in Delaware County in upstate New York. In 2011 she directed and wrote The Dish & the Spoon , starring Greta Gerwig and in 2015 another film called Funny Bunny.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

These Are My Friends!

10.0(0.0K)

A comedy that follows various mid-twenties drifters over the course of one party in Philadelphia.

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These Are My Friends!

Zeb's Mother

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Nights and Weekends

5.6(0.0K)

A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.

Alexander the Last

4.6(0.0K)

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

The Falls

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Two old college friends reconnect in East Falls Philadelphia, testing their friendship, artistic integrity, and patience with each other.

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The Falls

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Production

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Buffalo '66

7.1(1.1K)

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

The Dish & the Spoon

5.3(0.0K)

Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality.

The Dish & the Spoon

5.3(0.0K)

Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality.

Funny Bunny

5.5(0.0K)

Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene discovers that Titty has an ongoing online relationship with the beautiful but reclusive Ginger, who is an animal activist. Gene convinces Titty to make a pilgrimage to meet Ginger where the two men form a close bond despite both of them being drawn to the enigmatic Ginger, who is in need of rescue.

Funny Bunny

Piggie

4.0(0.0K)

An unbalanced young girl in upstate New York dairy country falls for a petty criminal from NYC and tries to manipulate him into being her boyfriend.

Piggie

4.0(0.0K)

An unbalanced young girl in upstate New York dairy country falls for a petty criminal from NYC and tries to manipulate him into being her boyfriend.

The Dish & the Spoon

5.3(0.0K)

Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality.

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The Dish & the Spoon

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