Grounded by his strong theatre and documentary production background, Zev Howley has directed and produced many award-winning films. He worked on a series of documentaries sponsored by the Australia Council, which led to an official selection for his documentary short, Raiders of a Lost Art, at the 2002 St. Kilda Film Festival.

In 2005, Zev directed Who is the Sonic Manipulator?, another documentary short that screened at The Big West Festival and Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Who is the Sonic Manipulator? has achieved success on YouTube with over 11,000 views.

As his passion for directing flourished, Zev dived into short fiction. He wrote and directed Sarah’s Jihad (2009), which won a number of Best Short Film Awards and screened on Channel 31’s Underexposed. He then wrote and directed Broken Superman (2012), which won Best Film at Melbourne’s Connect Film Festival and also screened in Los Angeles.

Walkman (2015) won Best Film of the Year at Comfy Shorts. In 2016, it was selected to screen at Cannes Short Film Corner, and was a finalist at the IndieWise Convention in Florida. In 2016, Zev completed The Enlightened State of Tara, a documentary which had a hugely successful screening at Lido Cinemas in Melbourne.

In addition, Walkman was screened at the Indian World Film Festival and was a Semi-Finalist at the Hollywood Independent International Documentary Film Festival.

Later that year, Zev collaborated with writer/producer Dion Voss on an independant feature film, The Last Supper of the Damned. This was Zev’s directorial debut on a feature. It gained official selection at a variety of international film festivals and was a Best Feature (Drama) nominee at the Genre Celebration Film Festival, Finalist at Frostbite International Online Film Festival and Winner of the 2016 Orson Wells Award.

In 2018, Zev completed two more films: horror short, The Calling, which was a Semi-Finalist at People of Passion Film Festival 2019; and I Think She Said Her Name Was, which was selected for Electric Shorts 2018 and won Best Fantasy Short Film at People of Passion Film Festival 2019.