Michelle Mower is an award-winning writer, director and producer whose feature films, television movies, docu-series and commercials have been release theatrically, on streamers like AppleTV and Amazon, and on broadcast networks like A&E/Lifetime. 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 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, it also led to her producing and directing the award-winning short documentary Crystal: Story of a Girl from Texas. Mower is currently in post-production on a feature-length documentary she is co-producing and co-directing titled Cinema Revival, about how the cinema-loving community in Houston rallied to save their last historic arthouse cinema.

In 2016, Mower became President and CEO of Imagination Worldwide, an international sales and distribution company based in Los Angeles. For 6 years, the company provided opportunities for talented female filmmakers to get their first feature films distributed. Some of the films distributed by Imagination Worldwide include Amber Tamblyn’s directorial debut Paint It Black (starring Alia Shawkat, Alfred Molina and Janet McTeer), which sold to Netflix, and the 2018 SXSW Audience Award-Winning drama The Light of the Moon, directed by Jessica M. Thompson (The Invitation) and starring Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto, “Brooklyn 99”), which sold to Amazon.

Mower is the founding president of the Houston Association of Producer (HAP). She also serves on the boards of 4th Wall Theatre Company and Arthouse Houston; and on the advisory boards for Film Fatales, Houston Community College’s Department of Film and Audio Production, Texas Southern University’s School of Communications and her alma mater University of Houston’s Valenti School of Communications. Mower previously served on the boards of Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), Texas Motion Picture Alliance (TXMPA) and Women In Film and Television - Houston (WiFT).