Update #1: Hello and THANK YOU
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Annie J. Howell has written and directed films that have played internationally on the festival circuit, including at SXSW, Newport, Full Frame and Clermont-Ferrand. Her work has aired on the Sundance Channel, PBS, and the Independent Film Channel, and as part of the ITVS online series, FutureStates. Her screenwriting work has been the recipient of a Nantucket Screenwriters' Colony fellowship, a Grand Prize at IFP's 2008 Independent Film Week and a 2010 San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Filmmaking grant. She is also the co-writer and co-director of SPARKS, an Internet web-based serial comedy about humans and technology that is syndicated by the Sundance Channel and will be released in 2010. Annie earned an MFA at NYU’s Graduate Program in Film and is currently Assistant Professor of Film at Ohio University.
Lisa Robinson works as a screenwriter and director. Her feature project SYNAPSE received the Sloan Foundation Feature Production Award and is in development with company Salty Features. Her writing includes MIND BLAST, an IMAX comedy for the Blue Man Group that is currently in pre-production. She is also the co-writer and co-director of SPARKS, an Internet web-based serial comedy about humans and technology that is syndicated by the Sundance Channel and will be released in 2010. She has written and directed three short films that have screened at film festivals around the world including Cannes-Directors Fortnight, Telluride, Edinburgh and Clermont Ferrand. She is the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Prize, the Digital Media Lab Award for Excellence (from Japan), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She received her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film Directing Program and is currently an Assistant Professor at Long Island University.
Annie and Lisa also blog for the Sundance Channel.