Name Julie Howe | Role Author | |
Books Catty Wompus: A Tale of Friendship | ||
Julie "Jules" Howe is a California screenwriter, producer and children's book author. who never met a story she didn’t like, especially stories for kids. Since she worships at the altar of Shel Silverstein, it’s not surprising her favorite book writing genre is rhyming verse.
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Her first children’s book and Hoffer Award winner, Catty Wompus: A Tale of Friendship, is about a lonely girl who learns the true value of friends. It’s based on a childhood experience that never left her. The sequel, Catty Wompus and The New Kid, 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 that she hopes will become a series.
In addition to the Catty Wompus books, Julie is an award winning screenwriter whose screenplay, Jasper Milliken, won the Austin Film Festival comedy award in 2010. BlueCat, Nicholl Fellowship, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and Fresh Voices. She recently had the honor of being included in the Austin Film Festival’s Inaugural Screenwriters to Watch article in MovieMaker magazine, July 19, 2016.
Julie 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.
Julie resides on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula with her husband and two painfully cute canine pals, Tyson and Lambchop.
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Recognition
Howe’s feature script, Jasper Milliken, won the prestigious Austin Film Festival Screenwriting competition, comedy category, in 2010 and her script Dead Sexy was an AFF semi-fnalist the following year. Howe’s screenplay Epiphany finished third in the BlueCat Screenwriting Lab Awards in 2008 and was a PAGE Awards Semi-Finalist in 2014. The Richmond Film Festival 2015 Official Screenplay Selections for a short screenplay was Howe's A Stroke of Genius. Her feature script Down on the Farm won the Fresh Voices 2014/2015 Screenplay Competition, family film category, and was a 2015 PAGE Awards semi-finalist.