Writer, director, and musician Silas Howard co-directed his first feature, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, with Harry Dodge. The indie classic was a 2002 Sundance Film Festival premiere and five-time Best Feature Winner. The film secured theatrical release from Artistic License, national video/DVD distribution with Wolfe video and continues to air on the Sundance Channel. Howard's screenplay, EXACTLY LIKE YOU, co-written with Nina Landey, earned him a spot at the 2003 Screenwriters Colony and made him a finalist for the 2005 Sundance Filmmaker's Lab. Duly Noted, producer Effie T. Brown's company (IN THE CUT, REAL WOMEN, ROCKET SCIENCE) picked up EXACTLY LIKE YOU in 2007. The project was selected for the 2007 Film Independent Directors Lab and Fast Track Program with the Los Angeles Film Festival. Howard's first short documentary, WHAT I LOVE ABOUT DYING, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. For eight years, Howard toured nationally and internationally with his band, Tribe 8. The notorious punk band released four full-length recordings on Alternative Tentacles and was featured in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Interview, Billboard, Elle and The Los Angeles Times. Howard's music videos have aired on MTV and LOGO networks in 2007 and 2008, as did his first short musical, HOW DO I SAY THIS? (2008), co-directed with Michael Bodie and made for MTV Networks. Howard's writing is also featured in the anthologies Without a Net: Growing Up Working Class and Live Through This, as well as the artists' journal, LTTR. Howard received an MFA in Directing at UCLA and was awarded the Kovler Family Fellowship in Film & Television, the Wasserman Film Production Award and was twice the recipient of the Motion Picture Association of America Award. He was nominated for a Rockefeller Award in 2004 and 2008. He also teaches in the Literature and Visual Arts Departments at UCSD.

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