Annie J. Howell grew up in the Arizona desert and was educated in Walla Walla, Washington and New York City. She has written, directed and produced short films that have played internationally on the film festival circuit, including at Sundance, SXSW, Newport, Full Frame, SilverDOCS and Clermont-Ferrand. Her work has aired on the Sundance Channel, PBS, and the Independent Film Channel. Annie worked on her original screenplay, THE MAMA SONGS, as a 2005 writer-in-residence at The Screenwriters Colony and it is now in development with Locomotive Films, produced by Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Joshua Astrachan. Her screenplay BLACK KID was recognized with the Grand Prize Award for Panasonic's Digital Filmmaking Grants, part of IFP's 2008 Independent Film Week. She is also the co-writer, director and cinematographer on an original web series, www.sparks-series.com, about the humorous relationship between humans and technology. Annie earned an MFA at NYU’s Graduate Program in Film and is currently an Assistant Professor at The New School, where she is the founding director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Documentary Media Studies, ranked by The Independent magazine as one of the top ten programs in North America. She also teaches at Ohio University in Athens (the Berkeley of Ohio), and is married witih two children.

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