Film alumna Claire Fowler ’11 made her US television directorial debut on the latest season of Manifest, the hit series from Netflix.
In Manifest, a plane mysteriously lands years after takeoff, and the people onboard return to a world that has moved on without them. The fourth season of the show premiered on Netflix on June 2, 2023 and stars Melissa Roxburgh (Star Trek: Beyond), Josh Dallas (Once Upon a Time), J.R. Ramirez (Jessica Jones), and others.
Fowler directed episode 414, entitled “Fata Morgana,” which follows the terrifying descent of a plague that the characters must scramble to combat. “The episode is crazy,” Fowler said. “It is filled with chases, shoot-outs, hauntings, and more. While it’s very different from my personal work, it is a lot of fun.”
Watch the trailer for the current, and final, season of Manifest below.
Claire Fowler is a writer-director from North Wales. After studying at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art, she made a number of human rights-themed documentary films that screened at festivals internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and Sheffield Docfest. Fowler attended Columbia University's MFA program in Film on a Fulbright scholarship and, later, the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Her most recent short, Salam, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 and won a BAFTA Cymru award in 2020.
