WRITERS

Diane Paragas (Story by and Screenplay by)

 Annie Howell (Screenwriter)

Annie J. Howell grew up in Cave Creek, Arizona surrounded by country music. She is a screenwriter and director invested in stories about family, race and class. Howell wrote the original screenplay for LITTLE BOXES, starring Melanie Lynskey and the late Nelsan Ellis, which premiered at Tribeca 2016 and subsequently sold to Netflix. She has co-written and co-directed two features with Lisa Robinson: SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS (2012, starring Anna Margaret Hollyman) and CLAIRE IN MOTION (2017, starring Betsy Brandt). Each film premiered at SXSW and played festivals and select theaters nation-wide. She is the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Prize, an IFP Emerging Narrative Award for Best Feature, a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony residency and a San Francisco Film Society/Rainin Foundation grant, among other awards. She has taught at institutions such as Duke University, The New School (where she was the Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Documentary Media Studies), Ohio University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (where she is an alum of the Graduate Film program), The City College of New York and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in New York with her husband, film theorist Michael B. Gillespie, and their two sons.