Laura Howie is a Director of Photography and Lighting Camerawoman with over 15 years’ experience as a professional cinematographer and over two decades in the camera department. Working predominately on high-end feature films she has developed an extensive portfolio of work that includes features, shorts, documentaries, commercials and promos. The films she’s worked on have been shown across the world and have won numerous awards including Oscars / Academy Awards, BAFTA’s and the Golden Globe.

Specialising in stop-motion cinematography Laura is currently Director of Photography on Pokémon Tales: The Adventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu. Preceding that she worked as senior lighting camera on ‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ at Aardman and as Lighting Camera on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’, all currently showing on Netflix.

Laura has been a full member of BAFTA since 2017 and votes in both the cinematography and animation chapters. She has served as a jury member for both the live action short (2026) and short animation (2021) awards.