Daedalus Howell

Daedalus Howell (born July 19, 1972 in Sonoma County, California) is an American writer, filmmaker and media personality, who is a writer-producer at FMRL, an entertainment and media venture. In 2012, he published "I Heart Sonoma: How to Live & Drink in Wine Country." He currently lives and works in Petaluma, California.

Howell is author of the novel The Late Projectionist and the writer-director of dozens of short films. As a journalist, he has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the North Bay Bohemian, the Petaluma Argus-Courier, Los Angeles Downtown News, FineLife Sonoma Magazine (for which he was editor) and the Sonoma Valley Sun. As a broadcast personality, Howell has hosted shows on KWMR (West Marin Coastal Radio) and KSVY (Sonoma, CA) and guest hosts The Drive on KSRO in Sonoma County. He presently writes a weekly column for the Sonoma Index-Tribune. He has also penned a media column for the North Bay Bohemian and was credited as the "wine country editor" of Tasting Panel Magazine.

With collaborator Jerry Rapp, Howell wrote and directed the R&H Educational Film Series, a four-part parody of American "social guidance films" of the 1950s. The series has played on Showtime and Canal+. A portion of the series was showcased on IFC. Howell has also directed music videos for RCA-signed Longwave and New York City-based Falcon. Howell also co-produced the feature film The Aviary and ran publicity for Deep Dark Canyon for filmmakers Silver Tree and Abe Levy.

He is the star of "Replica Redux," the re-released version of cult film "Replica," which was directed by Raymond Scott Daigle and released on YouTube in 2012. A night-in-the-life of several copy store employees, Howell plays a beleaguered nightshift manager who's life collapses in the course of several hours. The entire film was shot after hours in a Fed-Ex Kinkos without corporate knowledge.

Howell was named "Lifestyle Ambassador" to his native Sonoma County by the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau in 2008 and stars in a series of videos entitled "Inside Sonoma," which highlight tourism sites throughout Sonoma County's wine country. Howell portrays himself as a cheeky guide to the wine country lifestyle with comic results.