Lights, Camera, Revolution
Willamette Week cover story featuring five bold, innovative Portland directors, one of which is Maria Allred.
Drawing Strength From Heartbreak, Maria Allred Has Found Her Voice
Feature piece in the Willamette Week by Bennett Campbell Ferguson.
The Hollywood Reporter
ALASKA CHOSEN FOR CALIFORNIA FILM TAX INCENTIVE. In total, 11 studio movies and 11 indies will take advantage of the state's film tax incentives program. READ MORE
DEADLINE
ALASKA is announced as one of the 22 California State Tax Recipients. Dangling $86.9 million in front of some big-ticket projects from Oscar winners and former Desperate Housewives, the California Film Commission was feeling particularly generous this morning. READ MORE
Variety: Alaska shortlisted for Breaking Through the Lens!
Breaking Through The Lens, an initiative launched three years ago to promote emerging female directors, has unveiled the shortlist of projects vying to participate in the 3rd edition of its pitching platform set to take place during the Cannes Film Festival.
The selected projects, which will be pitched to over 100 financiers and key industry people during Cannes, were announced during the European Film Market on Feb. 25. READ MORE
FICTION'S MISTRESS - Maggie Stacu
“The Texture Of Falling” Is The Beautifully Confusing Film You Need To See
I find myself in awe, both confused and delighted by the chaotic journey that The Texture of Falling takes us, the audience, on. Never have I been so captivated. And I don’t say that lightly. READ MORE
REEL VIEWS - James Berardinelli
If there’s one thing on display in The Texture of Falling, it’s the powerful visual sense evinced by Maria Allred in her feature debut. Wearing no fewer than seven hats for the production (acting, directing, writing, cinematography, editing, art direction, wardrobe), Allred has earned the right to call this her film, taking auteur theory to the next level... READ MORE
WILLAMETTE WEEK - Bennett Campbell Ferguson
“The Texture of Falling” is a Poetic Journey Through Portland Landmarks and BDSM Maria Allred's debut film is rich with symbolic imagery. When Portland filmmaker Maria Allred was a teenager, she fled her family's home in Vancouver, Wash., to find herself."I left home and hitchhiked and lived in the woods a lot and was just living this really weird life for a year when I was 15 to 16," READ MORE
(RE)SEARCH MY TRASH - Michael Haberfelner
"If above synopsis sounds anything like your typical love story or a TV "movie of the week", rest assured, it is neither, rather a labyrithine piece of avant garde moviemaking that finds joy in taking apart its core story's narrative structure, leaving seminal plot-points only hinted at, jumping in and out of scenes at (only seemingly) random points, creating parallels between its narrative threads that suggest that one's only a reinterpretation of the other, and thus keeping the audience guessing all the way through its running time - until the finale puts the whole thing on a meta-level." READ MORE
BATTLE ROYAL WITH CHEESE - Interview with Maria Alled
In what context was The Texture of Falling created?
The film’s themes directly, metaphorically, and somewhat satirically dramatize aspects of what it means to be a female filmmaker (or even simply an artist or filmmaker in general)…READ MORE
WE ARE MOVING PICTURES - Interview with Maria Allred
Congratulations! Why did you make your film?
Thank you so much! My debut feature film, The Texture of Falling, was inspired by an experience in my life of unprecedented opening and then profound loss and grief. I think I’m a bit opposite than the norm in my evolution—when most people were falling in love in their teens I was hitchhiking cross-country on a wild adventure of both hardship and spiritual awakening. I had to grow up in certain ways really fast while other parts of me were left unattended…READ MORE