| Julie Howe | |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, producer, children's book author |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | Children's fiction, screenwriting |
Julie "Jules" Howe is a California screenwriter,[1] producer[2] and children's book author.[3] Her first children's book and Hoffer Award winner,[4] Catty Wompus: A Tale of Friendship,[5] is about a lonely girl who learns the true value of friends. It's based on a childhood experience of the author. The sequel, Catty Wompus and The New Kid,[6] takes the lessons learned, one step further. In 2015, Catty and her pals were brought to life in a musical television pilot called The Adventures of Catty Wompus[7] that she hopes will become a series.[8]
In addition to the Catty Wompus books, Howe is a screenwriter whose screenplay, Jasper Milliken, won the Austin Film Festival comedy award in 2010.[9] Since then, her screenplays have placed in top-ranking film festivals and screenplay competitions such as BlueCat,[10] Nicholl Fellowship,[11] PAGE International Screenwriting Awards[12] and Fresh Voices.[13] She recently had the honor of being included in the Austin Film Festival's Inaugural Screenwriters to Watch article in MovieMaker magazine, 19 July 2016.[14]
Howe holds a Feature Film Writing Certificate from UCLA Extension as well as the Academy of Film Writing. She's a founding board member of the Cinematic Arts and Technology Foundation of Cal State Monterey Bay whose goal is to empower at-risk youth through year-round community programs that investigate, educate and celebrate the cinematic arts.
Howe's feature script, Jasper Milliken, won the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting competition,[15] comedy category, in 2010 and her script Dead Sexy was an AFF semi-finalist the following year.[16] Howe's screenplay Epiphany finished third in the BlueCat Screenwriting Lab Awards in 2008[17] and was a PAGE Awards Semi-finalist in 2014.[18] The Richmond Film Festival 2015 Official Screenplay Selections for a short screenplay was Howe's A Stroke of Genius.[19] Her feature script Down on the Farm won the Fresh Voices 2014/2015 Screenplay Competition,[20] family film category, and was a 2015 PAGE Awards semi-finalist.[21]