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Heather Rae

Heather Rae

Production

Biography

Heather Rae is an American film and television producer and director. She has worked on documentary and narrative film projects, and is best known for Frozen River, Trudell, and Tallulah. Wikipedia

Known For

Outer Range
6.9

A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.

Outer Range

2022
Dude
5.5

Four best friends negotiate loss and major life changes during the last two weeks of high school.

Dude

2018
Frozen River
6.6

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

Frozen River

2008
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
5.7

A twelve-year-old girl is transported by a magical black stallion to the mystical world of Albion, where she discovers that she alone is the key to saving an entire race of people.

Albion: The Enchanted Stallion

2016
Fancy Dance
6.6

Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

Fancy Dance

2024
I Believe in Unicorns
6.4

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

I Believe in Unicorns

2015
Bull
6.2

In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both.

Bull

2020
Magic Valley
6.1

As one warm October day unfolds, the sleepy town of Buhl, Idaho will never be the same. A fish farmer finds his crop destroyed, a couple of kids are playing an unusual game in the sun-dappled fields, and after a wild party a sleepless teenager is harboring an awful secret….

Magic Valley

2011
Ass Backwards
4.4

Two best friends embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.

Ass Backwards

2013
Trudell
5.7

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

Trudell

2005
Backroads
N/A

A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.

Backroads

2000
Christmas in the Clouds
6.3

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Christmas in the Clouds

2001
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
6.7

This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

2019
Wind Walkers
5.9

A group of friends and family descend into the Everglades swamplands for their annual hunting trip only to discover that they are the ones being hunted. A malevolent entity is tracking them and they begin to realise one of their party may be possessed by something brought home from a tour of duty in the Middle East – a demon of war so horrible and deadly they are unaware of its devilish presence. Or are they facing something even more unspeakable, a legendary Native American curse about to unleash its dreadful legacy of thirsting for colonial revenge by claiming more souls?

Wind Walkers

2015
Among Ravens
4.8

The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.

Among Ravens

2014
Asylum Seekers
3.8

Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.

Asylum Seekers

2009
Disappearances
5.1

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."

Disappearances

2007
Apache 8
5.5

This is the story of the courageous all-female Apache 8 firefighting unit which has protected their reservation and responded to wildfires around the nation for 30 years. This group, which recently became co-ed, earned the reputation of being fierce, loyal and dependable--and tougher than their male colleagues. Despite facing gender stereotypes and the problems that come with life on the impoverished reservation, the women became known as some of the country's most elite firefighters. The film focuses on four women from different generations of Apache 8 crewmembers who speak tenderly and often humorously of hardship, loss, family, community and pride in being a firefighter.

Apache 8

2011
Your Name Isn't English
N/A

Each time Tazbah, a young professional woman gets into a ride-share car she takes on the unexpected role of becoming a free history teacher as her drivers struggle to pronounce her name.

Your Name Isn't English

2018
Dawnland
6.0

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identities. Can reconciliation help heal the scars from childhoods lost? "Dawnland" is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation's first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people.

Dawnland

2018