MICHELLE MOWER
Biography
Michelle Mower is an award-winning director who also writes and produces feature films, television movies, docu-series and commercials. Her films focus heavily on female protagonists who are fighting to break free from societal, religious and parental expectations while forging their own paths. Her most recent independent feature The Never List, about an overachieving teenage girl who’s perfectly planned academic life is derailed after the accidental death of her best friend, was accepted into the AMC Indie program and was released in 112 movie theaters across the country in December, 2020. The production had a 73% female, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ crew.
Mower has also written, produced and directed four movies for Lifetime, most recently What Happened to My Sister? (2022), a thriller set in a college sorority featuring a predominantly BIPOC cast. She produced and co-directed Dayna Steele: Rock The 36th, a 2018 Amazon docu-series that followed a former radio DJ’s run for Congress. The series not only gave Mower the opportunity to interview rock and roll legends David Crosby, Joan Jett, and Melissa Etheridge and lead to Mower directing the short documentary Crystal: Story of a Girl From Texas, winner of the Best Documentary at the Dallas International SHORTS Film Festival.
Mower is the founding president of the Houston Association of Producers (HAP) and also serves on the advisory boards of Film Fatales, Arthouse Houston, Fourth Wall Theatre, Texas Southern University School of Communications, Houston Community College Film and Audio Production Department, and the University of Houston’s School of Communications.