About

Led by producer Daedalus Howell, DHowell Media Group is a creative entertainment agency based in Sonoma, CA.

We thrill at creative challenges, particularly those that involve video, publications and editorial content (online and print), social media, branded entertainment and transmedia.

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Bio | Daedalus Howell

As a young man, Daedalus Howell wrote poetry and performed on the streets of Petaluma, CA, in an acoustic cabaret act.  Howell published the satire tabloid SCAM Magazine while studying creative writing at San Francisco State University. Howell later used his education as a small town newspaperman, prior to writing a novel about his experiences in independent filmmaking (The Late Projectionist) and later moving to Los Angeles to work in television and film development. Repatriated to the wine country in 2005, Howell worked in a couple of media start-ups as a writer and filmmaker prior to launching DHowell Media Group to concentrate on creative projects and branded entertainments. He presently lives in Sonoma, CA, with his wife The Contessa and his son, The Cannoli.

Writer-director Daedalus Howell (click for 300 dpi version of this image).

Credits & Clients

Howell’s videos have been distributed internationally on such outlets as Showtime Next, MTV2, MTV Italia, HBO Cesk Republika, BiteTV, IFC and Canal+ (two were official selections of the 2009 Sonoma International Film Festival). Recent national clients include Annie’s Homegrown, Menage a Trois Wine (Folie à Deux Winery/Sutter Home), No Office Records, RCA, the Planetary Group and the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau, for whom Howell serves as the official “Lifestyle Ambassador,” writing and hosting an award-winning series of videos. Additional listings can be found at the Internet Movie Database.

Editorial clients have included the San Francisco Chronicle, North Bay Bohemian, L.A. Downtown News, Petaluma Argus-Courier, Sonoma Valley Sun. Recent bylines have also appeared in FL•Sonoma Magazine, Tasting Panel Magazine, Vineyard and Winery Management Magazine. Howell currently pens a weekly column for the Sonoma Index-Tribune.

Here’s a mostly accurate Wikipedia listing.

Selected Press

Your friendly, neighborhood Lifestyle Ambassador

“An Advertisement for Himself,” Sonoma Magazine (pdf)

“The Drive,” KSRO 1350 AM

“Morning Edition,” NPR

“Speed of Film,” North Bay Bohemian

“The Wild Bunch: North Bay Filmmakers Forge a New Cinematic Scene” North Bay Bohemian

Strange but Compelling Citations:

“Duck & Cover,” The Escapist

Rosie and Mrs. America: Perceptions of Women in the 1930s and 1940s

Fire, Blood and Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca

Awards

In 2007, Howell placed first in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ national “Altweekly Awards” for Food Writing/Criticism.

In late 2008, “Inside Sonoma” won the bureau first place in the California Tourism Industry Association’s YouTube video contest. Howell also won the first place “Colby Award” for client Coldwell Banker’s worldwide video contest in 2007.

Availability

Daedalus Howell can provide direct interviews as well as information for articles (or contribute as a writer) on a variety of issues germane to the entertainment and media experience from a creative perspective. Howell delivers humorous, real-life anecdotes as well as hard-won insight with a light-hearted, erudite manner.

An expert on how narrative and story are the cornerstones of successful branding, marketing and creative initiatives, Howell can address the following topics:

Personal Branding

Social Media Marketing

Independent Media Making

Wine Country Lifestyle