Julie Howe

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Julie Howe
OccupationScreenwriter, producer, children's book author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenreChildren's fiction, screenwriting
Website
juleshowe.com

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]

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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.

Children's books

Television

Recognition

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]

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  2. ↑ "Jules Howe IMDB". IMDB.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Catty Wompus: A Tale of Friendship by Julie Howe – Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Hoffer Award Winners". Hofferaward.com. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Julie Howe author page". Amazon.com. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Julie Howe author page". Amazon.com. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "The Adventures of Catty Wompus". crookedsidewalk.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Teen Screen". GoodTimes.sc. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
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  14. ↑ "Austin Film Festival's 25 Screenwriters to Watch". Austin Film Festival. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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