Current Exhibitions

March 27th, 2025, 7:00 pm

Alfred D’Alessandro studied screenwriting with the legendary Frank Daniel at Columbia University. He credits Frank for The B-Side of Paradise. “Frank taught me everything I know about narrative structure, character development and how to transfer those lessons to the written word.” Frank was an academic, writer, producer and director who left his mark all over the film industry. He developed the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, that broke classically constructed three-act movies into eight three-act sequences; produced The Shop On Main Street (1965 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film); and mentored Milos Forman, the Academy Award winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, at the University of Prague. In America, he was the first dean of the American Film Institute where he developed the careers of David Lynch (The Elephant Man) and Terrence Mallick (Days of Heaven.) And the first Artistic Director at the Sundance Institute.D’Alessandro’s next project is Impure Thoughts: God and Sex to the Age of 14, an homage to Spaulding Gray.