Alison Julia Forest
# Alison Julia Forest

Alison J. Forest (Bologna, maggio 1987) è una [], regista e sceneggiatrice italo americana.

## Biografia

Alison J. Forest is an Italian-American filmmaker. A part from her English name, Alison was born and raised in Bologna, Italy, by her mom and grandma. She graduated late in 2010 in Set Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, making her first debut with a short film "La Bici" inspired by Bicycle Thieves by De Sica but with a Bologna style twist. In the same year, she did a filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy in NY city in which she made three short films.

In 2011 she worked as an AD in shorts and feature films. She helped produce an independent feature film shot in 8mm: Annunciacion - a triptych shot in the streets of New York.

Between 2012 – 2018 she lived in New Orleans working on Hollywood sets as an AD or assistant producer. During her free time, she continued to produce and direct music videos and short films like "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (2014), "My Wife Thinks You're DEead" (2015). Both entered at the New Orleans Film Festival.

At the end of 2019 Alison moved back to Italy and in 2022 she went to Rome to live and work in film production.

In 2023 Alison produced and directed a music video "Glitter Paranoia" for the band Dinastia Giulio Claudia.

