Michelle Mower

Producer

What I’m Looking For:
FEMALE-DRIVEN DRAMA, THRILLER, TRUE CRIME, ROM COM and YOUNG ADULT (YA) in SCRIPTED TV and FEATURE FILM, as well as TRUE CRIME for DOCU-SERIES and PODCAST.

About Me:
Michelle Mower is an award-winning writer, director, producer and executive producer with fifteen years of experience producing feature films, docu-series and made-for-tv movies for networks and streamers like Lifetime/A&E, Amazon and Apple+. Mower has produced four made-for-television movies for Lifetime, most recently WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SISTER? (2022). Her debut feature film THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER was picked up by Lifetime/A&E in 2012, where it garnered the highest rating of an original movie that year. This success led to a franchise of “preacher movies” for Lifetime, including THE PREACHER’S MISTRESS (2013) and THE PREACHER’S SIN (2015). Mower continues to write and develop projects for Lifetime.

Mower produced and directed the independent feature film THE NEVER LIST, about a teenage girl who’s perfectly planned academic life is derailed following the death of her best friend. Starring Fivel Stewart (Netflix’s “The Recruit” & “Atypical”), Anna Grace Barlow (“The Jesus Revolution”) and Jonathan Bennett (“Mean Girls”), the coming-of-age dramedy was released in 112 movie theaters across the U.S. in December, 2020 and can currently be seen on PayTV, Amazon and other streaming platforms around the world. Mower also produced the independent feature film DREAMER (2013), which was nominated for Best Feature Film at the 2013 Imagen Awards.

In addition to her scripted work, Mower produces thought-provoking documentaries and docu-series for streaming services like Amazon and Apple+. She is currently in production on two documentaries – an untitled short about a family in Texas who was forced to separate following the passage of anti-transgender laws in the state; and a feature-length documentary titled CINEMA REVIVAL about a community’s effort to save their last historic, arthouse movie theater. In 2018, Mower produced and co-directed the docu-series DAYNA STEELE: ROCK THE 36TH which follows a popular radio DJ in Houston who decides to run for Congress as a Democrat in the seventh reddest district in the country. The series gave Mower the opportunity to interview music legends David Crosby, Joan Jett, Melissa Etheridge and Gary Pihl.

Mower has also worked in international sales and distributor. Some of the films Mower distributed include Amber Tamblyn’s directorial debut “Paint It Black” (2018), starring Alia Shawkat, Alfred Molina and Janet McTeer, and the SXSW Audience Award-Winning drama “The Light of the Moon” (2019), directed by Jessica M. Thompson (“The Invitation”) and starring Stephanie Beatriz (“Encanto”, “Brooklyn 99”).

Mower is in the process of getting her Master’s degree in Professional Communication and Digital Media from Texas Southern University and has a B.A. in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Houston. She currently serves on the board of 4th Wall Theatre Company 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 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).