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Goldelox Productions provides production support small to medium sized productions after years of producing music videos for some of the biggest names in Canadian urban music ( i.e. Maestro, Nelly Furtado and Glen Lewis ) with music video production company, Raje Filmhouse. Alison co-owned Raje Filmhouse between 1996-1999 and during that time they received 19 Much Music Video Award nominations.
Producing and directing documentaries for television
In 2000, Alison made her directing debut with the groundbreaking seminol hip-hop documentary, Raisin’ Kane: a rapumentary. The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Since then she has been a well sought after director. Some of her most notable works include, A Deathly Silence (2003) produced for CBC Witness and Newsworld and her short documentaries on Chum Television's Sex TV: the series such as a The Player’s Ball, Booty Nation and The Babies. Her work has appeared on various other television networks including MuchMusic, TVOne, Oxygen, Starz!, Encore, Life, Rogers, The Superchannel, BET, Vision TV, OMNI Television, Raptor TV, the ACC jumbotron and the Sundance Channel.
After Raisin' Kane: a rapumentary Alison established Goldelox Productions and started to co-produce documentaries with other artist, such the award winning film Sister’s In Cinema, by Yvonne Welbon, a film that traces the hidden history of African American women in American cinema featuring Julie Dash, Euychan Palsy, and Kasi Lemmons. In 2007 she co-produced, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (2007), a feature documentary by Andrew Nisker that set out to capture the eco-footprint of a Canadian Family. In 2008, GTRSAH premiered at Hotdocs and the United Nations Association Film Festival.
Community-based filmmaking
 During the past six years Alison has turned her eye to community based documentaries. Goldelox Productions has completed several notable commissions that bring to light a range of social issues. Hear the Story (2005) is a 28-minute documentary commissioned by the City of Toronto, Mayor’s office that looks at the marginalization of racialized youth in Toronto. Traditions and Transitions T(2007) is a 40-minute commission by the Women’s Intercultural Network, which highlights the activism of six extraordinaire senior immigrant women who became super activists; and The Woman I Have Become (2008), a 60-minute commissioned sponsored by several HIV/AIDs organizations in Ontario, Canada, which candidly highlights the courage and dignity of eight African and Caribbean women living with HIV. The film was endorsed by the Ministry of Health in Canada and has been translated into five African languages.
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