Biografia
In his 40-year career Allan has proven himself a skilled filmmaking chameleon. His work as the director-editor of Steven Spielberg's "Survivors of the Holocaust", won Allan two Emmy Awards and a Peabody. His feature documentaries "Old Man River" and "Sounds Of Memphis" earned a combined eight best documentary film awards.
Allan began editing under the "Roger Corman Film School" which famously launched the careers of a who's who of Hollywood greats. Allan has directed five narrative feature films including the hilarious, action-packed "Mutant" (aka Forbidden World), recently released by Shout and the faux documentary "Grunt! The Wrestling Movie." His psychological thriller, "Intimate Stranger with Deborah Harry still stands as Showtime's highest rated film.
More recently, Allan has challenged himself to a wide variety of projects, including an interactive, multi-screen video for 20th Century Fox, The Titanic Attraction; whimsical documentaries accompanying the DVD releases of Walt Disney classics "Cinderella," "The Lion King," "Aladdin," "Lady And The Tramp" and "Pocahontas;" a bio-doc about television humor pioneer Sheldon Leonard, producer of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Andy Griffith Show," and "I Spy," a documentary with the American Film Institute Archives, "The Art Of Directing with Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, David Lynch, and François Truffaut;" and the editing of three pop culture feature documentaries: "Trek Nation," "My Marilyn" (also directed and produced by Allan), and "Dare To Be Different."
His new documentary "The Professor," features UC Berkeley's uniquely inspiring Landscape Architecture professor Chip Sullivan. For the past few years, Allan has used his editing skills to help first time directors transform their documentaries into compelling films. They include: "Refusenik," "America The Beautiful 2," "Iceberg Slim Portrait Of A Pimp," "Curtain Up" and "The Paw Project." His new book, "Celluloid Wars" is based on his experiences editing and directing for Roger Corman with a companion feature documentary "C-C-Cut: Autobiography Of A Stuttering Filmmaker."
