Annie Howell
Annie J. Howell is a writer and director. Her first feature, co-written and co-directed with Lisa Robinson, was SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS (starring Anna Margaret Hollyman), which premiered at SXSW in 2011 and went on to play over thirty festivals, win several awards and play theatrically in art house theaters across the nation. Her second film with Robinson, CLAIRE IN MOTION (starring Betsy Brandt), premiered at SXSW 2016 in competition and is on the festival circuit. LITTLE BOXES, which she wrote (directed by Rob Meyer and starring Melanie Lynskey and Nelsan Ellis) also premiered in 2016 at Tribeca and sold to Netflix. Other credits include a short for the vanguard ITVS series FutureStates as well as the web series SPARKS, also created with Robinson and licensed to the Sundance Channel's website. Howell is an alumna of Whitman College, NYU Grad Film, the Screenwriters Colony and IFP’s Emerging Narrative. She teaches in the MFA in Film program at City College, and lives in New York with her husband and two sons.
