Annie J. Howell

Teaches at Made in NY Media Center by IFP

Annie J. Howell is a screenwriter and director. Her first film, co-written and co-directed with Lisa Robinson, was SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS (starring Anna Margaret Hollyman), which premiered at SXSW in 2011. The film received the Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented at the Hamptons Film Festival, and the Audience Award at RiverRun. Her second feature with Robinson, CLAIRE IN MOTION (starring Betsy Brandt), premiered at SXSW 2016 in competition and went on to play fests such as Nantucket and Seattle. It sold to Breaking Glass Pictures and is now available to stream. LITTLE BOXES, which she wrote (directed by Rob Meyer) also premiered in 2016 at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it sold to Netflix. That script is the recipient of an IFP Emerging Narrative Award for Best Feature and a San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation grant. Other writing credits include YELLOW ROSE, directed by Diane Paragas, which is now in post-production.