Black Bear Signs Breakout Screenwriter Kerry Howley Ahead of Sundance-Bound Debut Film
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 January 2024 12:23
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Black Bear announced their management arm has signed screenwriter, author, and essayist Kerry Howley for representation. Howley wrote the script for the Sundance-bound film Winner, a comedic coming-of-age story adapted from her own New York Magazine profile.
The film, which is directed by Susanna Fogel, stars Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, and Zach Galifianakis and will debut in the Premieres section.
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Howley is a prolific writer, having authored the Knopf-published non-fiction book Bottom's Up and The Devil Laughs, which was recently picked as a New York Times 2023 Top Ten Book of the Year and a Vanity Fair Best Book of the Year. She is currently a staff writer at New York Magazine, most recently contributing the cover piece "Erewhon's Secrets" on the strange history and rise of the Los Angeles health food mecca Erewhon. Before joining the staff of New York Magazine, Howley was a professor at the University of Iowa's celebrated Nonfiction MFA program.
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Black Bear's management arm has quickly established itself as one of the industry's premiere companies focused on representing exceptional writers, directors, creators, and talent with a truly global orientation. With seven full-time managers led by partners Keith Redmon and Joanne Roberts Wiles, Black Bear represents close to one hundred of the most accomplished artists around the world. Indicative clients include Karyn Kusama ("Yellowjackets", Destroyer), Johan Renck ("Chernobyl", upcoming Spaceman), Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth), Morten Tyldum ("Silo", The Imitation Game), John Hillcoat ("George & Tammy", The Road), Raine Allen-Miller (Rye Lane), Charlie McDowell (The One I Love, upcoming The Summer Book), David Sandberg (Kung Fury), Jamie Dack (Palm Trees and Power Lines), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog, upcoming "Disclaimer"), Michaël Roskam (The Drop, Bullhead), Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Silent Twins, The Lure), Elliott C. Hove (Godland), and Simona Tabasco ("The White Lotus"), among many other incredible artists, including Sophie Dupuis (Solo) and Ilker Catak (The Teacher's Lounge), who both recently appeared on Variety's Ten Directors to Watch for 2024.
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Howley is represented by CAA.
About Black Bear
Black Bear is one of the world's leading independent studios, producing, financing, licensing and distributing film and television content around the world. With offices in Los Angeles and London, Black Bear also represents some of the most exciting artists working today through its bespoke management arm.
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The award-winning studio is behind such commercial and critical hits as The Imitation Game, I Care A Lot, Mudbound, and All Is Lost, and boasts a current slate featuring such titles as NYAD from directors Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster for Netflix, and Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money.
