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Claire Fowler is a Welsh writer and director. After studying at Oxford University, she made a number of documentaries focused on human rights before attending Columbia University’s M.F.A. program in film on a Fulbright scholarship. She has since participated in the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, the Ryan Murphy HALF program and the Sony Directing program. Her short films have screened at over two hundred international film festivals, including Tribeca, Human Rights Watch, London, Palm Springs and Outfest, and in 2020 she won a BAFTA Cymru award for her short film Salam. After completing the Warner Bros. Directors’ Workshop, Claire is set to direct an episode of Manifest (Netflix).