Alison Benson on Clubhouse

Bio

Screenwriter from Sydney, Australia. 🦘🇦🇺
(She/Her)

My Work:

✍︎ Currently outlining a family drama set in present time about a dad’s struggle to have shared custody of his baby daughter.
⋆ Inspired by real events.
⋆ Themes: custody, relationship breakdowns, fathers are as good as mothers, overburdened family courts, costs.

✍︎ Finished my current rewrite for a family comedy about the joys and perils of a mother/daughter relationship.
⋆ inspired by true events.
⋆ “We loved our daughter, we lost her, we got her back.”
⋆ Themes: adoption, parenting, family, teenagers, prejudice.

✍︎ Screencraft Animation Semi-Finalist 2020: ‘MAXI’.
⋆ An abandoned pup needs to trust again if he wants a forever home.
⋆ Storyboard in development.
⋆ Theme: Dogs are for life, not just for Christmas (or COVID), neglected dogs can recover and trust again.

My Story:

❀ Mum to 🧍🏻🧍🏾‍♀️🧍🏻🧍🏻‍♀️Grandmum to🧍🏻‍♀️

❀ Activist + advocate for the adoption of children + animals.

❀ Teacher of 38 years (People with Disabilities and English as a Second Language).

❀ ex-Australian Army Reserve medic.

❀ Volunteer aids orphanage, Thailand. Supporter of boutique charity “Hands Across the Water”.


Would love to collaborate - DM👇🏼