Derek Howard is a director of photography, director, and editor whose collaborations have screened at Venice, Toronto, Sundance, Telluride, and more.

Derek Howard is a director of photography, editor, and director currently based in New York City. After graduating with honors with a BFA from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, he moved to Berlin, where he began assistant directing and shooting for renowned filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (“Vivan Las Antipodas, Varicella, Aquarela”). Immersed in the world of creative documentary, video art, and hybrid formats, Derek established himself as a risk taking, energetic, and innovative filmmaker with a focus on LGBTQ+ representation, dance, extreme nature, and climate change stories. His collaborations have led to premieres at many A-list film festivals, and prestigious art institutors such as the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and MOMA PS1. He has participated in the IDFA Summer School, IDFAcademy, Reykjavik Trans Atlantic Talent Lab, Berlinale Talents program, and the Filming in the Amazon residency led by Apichatpong Weserthat. Derek shot award-winning filmmaker Emelie Mahdavian’s debut feature “Bitterbrush (Telluride 2021), celebrated visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s debut feature “The Tuba Thieves” (Sundance 2023), and award-winning filmmaker Tracy Tragos’s “Plan C” (Sundance 2023). He has edited two films for noted Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi (Bakhmaro, The Dazzling Light of Sunset) and has a long history of editing consulting on Georgian documentary films (Taming the Garden, The Magic Mountain, City of the Sun). Most recently Derek just completed editing Rusudan Gaprindashvili's debut feature documentary "How to Talk to Lydia," and filming Academy Award winners Kate Davis & David Heilbroner's feature documentary about the recent total solar eclipse titled "Totality."