Alan Clay
Alan Clay (born 1954, Whanganui, New Zealand) is a film director, writer and clown teacher. In his early career he performed and taught extensively as a clown. He wrote three novels and a clown textbook. He went on to write and direct a short film and two feature films, which are adapted from his novels.
Biography
Clay is the son of literacy scientist, Marie Clay.
In 2007 he produced, wrote and directed the short film Moontan, a story about two street clowns swept up in the occupation of New Zealand's last Victorian theatre, the Royal Wanganui Opera House. The script was an adaptation of his first novel, published in 1995.
Moontan screened at the Fringe Film Festival in Wellington, New Zealand in July 2007, and in the Market at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2008 and the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in France. A DVD was released in 2009, which includes a 20-minute 'making of' documentary.
Clay produced, wrote and directed his first feature film Butterfly Crush in 2009, which he adapted from his novel Dance Sisters. The film was released in New Zealand in 2010 and will be distributed in North America by Vanguard Cinema.
'Alan Clay' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
A Hologram for the King (2015)
Actors: Abdullah Al Muslemani (actor), Mamdouh Al-Harthy (actor), Jassim Alsaady (actor), Michael Baral (actor), Jeff Burrell (actor), Ian T. Dickinson (actor), Jon Donahue (actor), Omar Elba (actor), Waleed Elgadi (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Michael Ihnow (actor), Dhaffer L'Abidine (actor), Khalid Laith (actor), David Menkin (actor), Jay Abdo (actor),
Genres: Drama,Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
Actors: Michael Paul Chan (actor), Fred Holliday (actor), Larry Manetti (actor), Larry Poindexter (actor), Merrifield Reed (actor), Andrew Stevens (actor), Chick Vennera (actor), Frederick Vial (actor), Jim Wynorski (actor), Melissa Brasselle (actress), Elaine Giftos (actress), Barbara K. Hill (actress), Marta Martin (actress), Kimberley Roberts (actress), Brad Blaisdell (actor),
Plot: TV producer CLAIR ARCHER, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires top attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles and then, in the middle of the trial and the torrid affair, discovers that Clair is guilty. Simon's associate, Lane, finds incriminating evidence against Clair. Simon tries to end the affair. But Clair cleverly sets up Lane so that when Clair kills Simon, Simon's wife suspects Lane -- and shoots her. Clair Archer is judged "not guilty" and walks away free.
Keywords: affair, audio-tape, b-movie, black-bra, blackmail, break-in, breasts, buxom, courtroom, cult-directorGenres: Thriller,
Taglines: Guilty or not, there's no way she's innocent.
Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III (1994)
Actors: Cosie Costa (actor), Robert Forster (actor), Stephen M. Garvin (actor), Lenny Juliano (actor), Jon Lindstrom (actor), Andrew Stevens (actor), Chick Vennera (actor), Antonia Dorian (actress), Morgan Fairchild (actress), Felicia Laura (actress), Becky LeBeau (actress), Shari Shattuck (actress), Delia Sheppard (actress), Carrie Stevens (actress), Pat Brady (actor),
Plot: Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story (she's been 'forced' to kill two men in self defence). Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
Keywords: b-movie, cult-director, cult-film, erotica, female-nudity, independent-film, psychotronic, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, sexploitationGenres: Thriller,
Taglines: One man. Two women. Luck has nothing to do with it.
Quotes:
Bob Sibley: A woman is not in jeopardy unless the threat comes from a man.Dr. Claire Archer: Don't touch me, I might have an orgasm.
Freddie Summers: She's the kind of woman who makes you sit up and beg.
Alan Clay: Why don't you slip out of that wet raincoat and into a dry martini?
Clay, Alan Filmography
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2015, role: writer
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2015, role: producer
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2015, role: director
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2014, role: writer
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2014, role: director
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2014, role: producer
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: writer
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2010, role: writer
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2010, role: director
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2010, role: editor
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2007, role: director
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2007, role: producer
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2007, role: writer
