HEATHER RAE
Producer
TALenT DeVeLoPMenT ProGrAM:
Spirit Award Grant Winner
CUrrenT ProJeCT:
The Dry Land (Narrative Feature)
LOGLINE
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family
he left in Texas.
BIO
Heather Rae has worked in a producing capacity on more than a dozen documentaries and half dozen
features throughout her twenty years in the fi lm industry. She produced Frozen River, which stars Melissa
Leo, Misty Upham and Marc Boone Jr. Frozen River premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, won the
Grand Jury Prize and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Frozen River was nominated for two Academy
Awards for Best Actress and Best Screenplay, won the Gotham Award for Best Picture and Best Actress and
was nominated for seven Spirit Awards resulting in a Best Actress win for Melissa Leo and the Producer of
the Year for Rae. Additionally she produced Ibid, starring Christian Campbell which premiered the 2008
South By Southwest fi lm festival and internationally at the Munich Film Festival where it was nominated for
the prestigious CineVision Award.
Rae is currently producing The Dry Land starring America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Ritter, and
Melissa Leo, which will be fi nanced by the newly formed Maya Entertainment and released in the Fall of
2009. Sergio Aguero (y tu mama tambien, Quarantine) is executive producing alongside Ferrera.
Previously Rae produced and directed Trudell which premeired at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
and played Tribeca, SilverDocs, Full Frame, Seattle and over 100 other festivals. Trudell was released
theatrically by Balcony Releasing and played over 60 markets before airing on PBS’ Independent Lens and
the Sundance Channel. Trudell won numerous awards including a Special Jury Prize from the Seattle Film
festival and Best Documentary from the American Indian Film Festival.
Rae is also producing and directing Family: The First Circle, a documentary about the foster care system;
the project received the Sundance Documentary Grant and was selected fro Tribeca All Acess, both in 2008.
Rae received the ReNew Media Rockefeller Award for the project as well.
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