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Alanne
is a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker best known for penning director Oliver Stone's upcoming Vietnam war drama
PINKVILLE. He is currently finishing WEST WITH THE NIGHT for Angelina Jolie at Warner Bros. and the Chilean dissident thriller
THE DICTATOR'S SHADOW for director Daniel Espinosa and Phoenix Pictures.
Alanne most recently penned the murder mystery LABYRINTH at Twentieth
Century Fox and wrote adaptations of New York Times best-sellers
THE LONG ROAD HOME and FRANKLIN AND WINSTON, the latter to star Sir Anthony Hopkins as Winston Churchill.
Alanne also wrote Renny Harlin's war correspondent drama 5 DAYS OF WAR,
which won the Cinema Without Borders "Bridging the Borders" Award in
January 2012.
On the television front, Alanne most recently sold the supernatural drama SERAPHIM to the CW with CBS/Paramount and executive producer Samuel L. Jackson.
Alanne's other teleplays include the cop drama PRECINCT ZERO for FX, the Apocalyptic sci-fi thriller THE LAST GENERATION for NBC, and the reincarnation mystery
SECOND CHANCE, the time travel thriller PARADOX, and the forensic drama
THE BODY FARM for ABC.
Alanne
also wrote RAMPART: A DETECTIVE'S REQUIEM, about the infamous LAPD scandal, for HBO Films, and was called to testify about his research in Federal Court.
Alanne's documentary films include VOICE OF DISSENT, which caused The Los Angeles Times to call for a reopening of the Robert Kennedy assassination case, and the History Channel's acclaimed
TERROR STRIKES MOSCOW, about the infamous theater hostage siege in the heart of the Russian capital.
A native of Finland, Alanne graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in film production and sociology.