Background
Howes was born in Gibraltar on 15 July 1950, and moved to London as a teenager.
Howes was born in Gibraltar on 15 July 1950, and moved to London as a teenager.
University of Westminster.
He died from lung cancer in London 29 November 2004, aged 54. Howes studied teaching, then film-making at the Polytechnic of Central London. He went on to have a long career in documentary film-making and was particularly known for a trilogy about the Sudanese civil war.
He also taught during his career at University of Essex and the London College of Printing.
At this time of his death he was working on a film Bacchanalias Bahianas 1-5 which was left unfinished. He had worked on this film in Brazil and it focussed on beach culture in Bahia.
Kafi"s Story (1989)
Nuba Conversations (2000).