Howard Jefferson Lewis (born 1951) is a Canadian screenwriter and film producer from Montreal, Quebec.
[3] After graduating from Queen's University with a degree in film studies, he worked as a journalist for the Ottawa Citizen, CBC Radio and Southam News before publishing Something Hidden, a biography of his grandfather, in 1981.
He wrote a number of documentary shorts for the NFB in the 1980s, and was a writer for the short-lived television soap opera Mount Royal, before making his feature film debut with the screenplay for The Paper Wedding (Les noces de papier) in 1989.
[6] For that film, he won the award for Best Screenplay at the 1994 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
[7] In 2002 he wrote Paule Baillargeon's NFB documentary Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story (Claude Jutra, portrait sur film), for which he won both the Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series at the 18th Gemini Awards,[8] and the Writers Guild of Canada award for best writing in a documentary.