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My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures – Wikipedia

My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures is a 2007 documentary directed by Johnny Boston. The film stars and is materially about Alan Russell-Cowan, an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The documentary My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures focuses on Alan Russel-Cowan, a street painter diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, as he works to break his way into the professional art world.

Can Video Save Teen Magazines? – YPulse

Just got a press release from CosmoGIRL! in my inbox about a new video soap they will be launching in spring of ’08. From the release: CosmoGIRL! magazine and Raw Digital, a Raw Media Network company, today announced a partnership to launch an online soap opera series set in a suburban high school. The announcement [...]

My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures – Online Video Guide

Plot: My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)
Producer-director Johnny Boston’s documentary My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures etches out a haunting portrait of Alan Streets, a gifted young artist residing and working in New York — who also just happens to be a schizophrenic. The film follows Streets during and after his residence in New York’s Bellevue Hospital; the artist exudes undeniable talent, but as he treks out each morning to paint cityscapes (independently of the weather that unfurls before him), the schizophrenia proves so debilitating that it raises key and pointed questions about his ability to even survive in the world,

My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures (2007) – Netflix

Filmmaker Johnny Boston explores the creative process and the definition of art in this revealing documentary portrait of Alan Russell-Cowan, an aspiring painter who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. For Alan, painting provides a release from his symptoms, but his delusions and auditory hallucinations are also key contributors to his artistic vision. Through his work, a real picture of mental illness becomes clear.

Documentary Paints Picture of Talented Painter Struggling with Schizophrenia

After nearly six years of production, director/producer Johnny Boston may have perhaps found a modern-day “Vincent van Gogh”. Boston recently completed his feature length documentary titled, MY NAME IS ALAN AND I PAINT PICTURES, a film that documents the life of Alan Russell Cowan. The film is slated for its US Premiere with the NY [...]

My Name Is Alan Trailer – Rediff.com

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My Name Is Alan – Pressbox Review

My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures is a haunting documentary created by the emerging super producer-director, Johnny Boston. The film is a five-year chronicle about Alan Streets, a paranoid schizophrenic, as he struggles to succeed as an artist in New York City.

Alan’s life is a constant series of questions, concerns and fears. Will his work be appreciated? Will he be taken advantage of? Will he be able to keep his disease subdued without medication?

Craigslist boss won’t stoop for dotcom dollars – Times Online

The problem with insane wealth is that not all of it is good. STANDING at the crowded bar in New York’s Soho House, Johnny Boston looks very uncomfortable. The 5ft 9in president of New York film production company Raw Films Inc has his head tipped back at an angle more usually associated with the victims [...]

It’s easy to enjoy the ‘Revengers’ Web Site – Reuters

“Everybody’s kind of reaching in the dark to find ways for entertaining properties – like musc, like television, like film – to work in conjunction with the Internet,” said Johnny Boston, a New York filmmaker and the creator of “The Revengers.” “What we’ve done is engaged an audience before we’ve launched our show, which means [...]

The Revengers – Newsworthy

The people at RAW FILMS have tapped into thid new chapter of Internet entertainment with THE REVENGERS, a funky new miniseries that will be cast entirely online. The characters are five femme fatales and one determined guy, fighting together in the name of the scorned and the underdog. The chic site (www.the-revengers.com) is a blistering [...]