Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker Allan Holzman has enjoyed success in feature and documentary films as both director and editor. Under the tutelage of renowned producer Roger Corman, Allan honed his directing and editing skills on groundbreaking independent movies, recently re-released on Blu-ray from Shout Factory, Battle Beyond The Stars, and his directing debut, Forbidden World (aka Mutant), winner of the Paris International Film Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Allan’s first adventure into documentaries as editor received the Governor’s Emmy Award for Special Achievement for Ted Turner’s six-hour mini-series The Native Americans. Allan won two Emmy Awards as director and editor of Steven Spielberg's Survivors Of The Holocaust and the film was honored with a Peabody Award for best documentary.

Two of Allan’s award winning independent documentaries, Old Man River (based on a one woman play) and Sounds Of Memphis (produced by the Recording Academy) earned an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award and a nomination. He created the evergreen American Cinema Editors Invisible Art, Visible Artists series, featuring the Academy Award Nominees of each year, for which he received the ACE Heritage Award.

Allan’s books Celluloid Wars: What I learned on “Battle Beyond the Stars,” and Celluloid Wars: What I learned on “Forbidden World,” will be published by PULP 2.0 in 2020. His multi-screen People and Places exhibition was featured in the opening of Columbia University’s new Renzo Piano designed campus in 2019.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Allan graduated Bennington College and AFI. He served on the Board of Directors of American Cinema Editors for seven years and taught film editing as USC School of Cinematic Arts for twelve.