Alison Murray grew up in Canada and the UK. She eventually studied dance and theatre before completing an MA in Film Direction at the Royal College of Art (1995). She has been making award-winning short films since Kissy Suzuki Suck (1992). Many of Alison's films incorporate her unique approach to dance and in 1996 she received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Choreography. She has choreographed and directed two films for the BBC's Dance for the Camera series. Alison's work has been presented alongside that of Harmony Korine, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michel Gondry and Atom Egoyan in RET. INEVITABLE at Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage - an event billed as 'screening today's most important visualists'. The Institute of Contemporary Art in London has presented a retrospective of her short films, also shown at the Tate Gallery. In 2000 she completed Train on the Brain, an hour long documentary for Channel 4 and TVOntario in which she rode the rails across North America, armed with a DV and Super 8 camera. In 2003 Alison collaborated with London based rapper Jonzi D to make Aeroplane Man, a film adaptation of Jonzi D's hit theatre show of the same name. She has directed over twenty music videos, and is currently producing and directing a documentary about Carnys - travelling fairground workers. Mouth to Mouth is Alison's first feature film as a writer and director.