
November 16, 1954 · 71 years old
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.…

Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.

A waitress lives with her two teen daughters in a trailer park in New Mexico. They all want a boyfriend.

Edna wins a recording contract singing her own song at a competition in 1958. After trying to make it as a singer/songwriter for 11 months in NYC, she has success writing songs for others at the Brill Building.

A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent-film era to the 1970s.

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While t...

A road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love.

The biography of renowned actor Rock Hudson is examined in this relevant investigation of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity, from his public "ladies' man" character to his private life as a gay man.

Two musicians and a roadie take money that is owed to them from a job. One flees to Mexico, and everyone has questions.