Eric D. Howell

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Director, Cinematographer and Screenwriter

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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About Eric

Eric D. Howell is an international award-winning writer, director, and photographer. His newest foray into storytelling is via a graphic novel based on a highly acclaimed, winner of Top 3 screenplay's for FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK AWARD (2019), THE REVOLUTION OF CASSANDRA.

After working his way through technical filmmaking, Eric joined the Screen Actors Guild in 1992 as a stuntman and actor. This experience propelled him into stunt coordination, cinematography, and directing.

After directing narrative television and documentaries for NGOs in developing nations, Eric earned a degree in screenwriting from the Minneapolis School of Cinema (MCTC). He was dubbed by Shoot! Magazine “as one of the industry’s crop of new directors to watch”, has won, or been a finalist multiple times in writing competitions for FADE IN Screenwriting Magazine and FINAL DRAFT’S Big Break.

His short, ANA’S PLAYGROUND won top awards at over 30 festivals around the world and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. He is a McKnight Artist Fellowship winner and his latest award winning screenplay THE REVOLUTION OF CASSANDRA is being released as a graphic novel.

His last feature film was VOICE FROM THE STONE starring Emilia Clarke and Marton Csokas. He has recently completed production on two new music videos for Evanescence USE MY VOICE and BETTER WITHOUT YOU. He is represented by United Talent Agency. His work can be seen at

Unique traits: I'm a dual US and Italian Citizen which can helpful in finding incentives for film funding. .

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Male

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Evanescence - Use My Voice (Official Music Video)

Evanescence - Better Without You (Official Music Video)

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The Rhinelander Budget: $10M - $30M | War ⋄ Mystery When a German prisoner of war is murdered in a Wisconsin POW camp, his friend and fellow soldier must reluctantly team up with a Jewish counterintelligence officer, a Native American guard and a local farmer to take down the fascist hardliners who have quietly assumed control of the camp and are plotting a deadly act of sabotage.
Ana's Playground Budget: $5M - $10M | War ⋄ Drama WINNER - FADE IN MAGAZINE Grand Prize -ANA’S PLAYGROUND follows intersecting stories of human connection told through the eyes of children living in separate conflict regions, and how their lives are brought together through the efforts of a war journalist and a woman seeking to adopt a child.
KILLING ROMA Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Romance A meticulous assassin awaits his target’s arrival by hiding seemingly alone, in a nearby bohemian apartment. When he stumbles upon the dying tenant, a suicidal woman, he is torn between pulling the trigger on his target or saving her life. To his astonishment she awakens with an angry threat; He must kill her by morning or she will turn him in. An assassins’ worst day develops into an unlikely romance over the course of a single night in an idyllic city where they overcome dark instincts and troubled pasts.
The Revolution of Cassandra Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Adventure WINNER - TOP 3 FINAL DRAFT BIG BREAK COMPETITION - While caught in the crossfire of a raging civil war, a patchouli-wearing, humanitarian must save her tomboy sister from the firing squad by beseeching help from a right-wing gun-smuggler, and changes the entire course of the war by inadvertently starting her own revolution. An action-romance in the tradition of The African Queen or Romancing The Stone, Cassandra is the dread-lock & Birkenstock equivalent to Lara Croft. A female Don Quixote living life as it should be. A story about using your voice for what you believe in, not screaming about what you’re against!