'Perfectly a strangeness' Second Sight Pictures EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Alison McAlpine made the most of her recent visit to Los Angeles for the Oscar Luncheon. While in town earlier this month, the Montreal-based director of perfectly a strangeness went on a couple of shoots. And she didn't go alone. As readers of Deadline know, McAlpine's documentary short "stars" three donkeys - Palomo, Ruperto and Palaye - who amble about a mountainous terrain absent human presence.