- published: 03 Jul 2013
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Heather Rae is an American film producer, director, and actress. She was born on October 1st, 1966 in Venice, California but grew up in the mountains of Boise, Idaho. She is of Native American descent of the Cherokee Indians. Heather is a 1990 graduate of The Evergreen State College located in Olympia, Washington. There Heather received a Bachelor of Arts in Film and multi-cultural studies. Heather is married to fellow movie director and writer Russell Friedenberg. Heather and Russel got married in July, 1999 and since being married, had 3 children together. Rae is a twenty year veteran of the film industry with a strong record in Native and other independent film. She has worked on more than two dozen documentary and narrative film projects but is best known for Frozen River (2008), Ibid (2008) and Trudell (2005).
Trudell (2005) is the culmination of 13 years of Rae’s work as a filmmaker and activist. It has played in more than 50 film festivals worldwide, receiving honors such as Best Documentary Feature at the 30th Annual American Indian Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. In 2007 Trudell was nationally broadcast on PBS in the documentary series Independent Lens.