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Filmmaker,
writer, photographer, these are words reserved for high school
reunion directories, letters to grandma and online dating
profiles. Vocation is sometimes more amorphous, or at least
it’s more fun when it is. Heather has achieved Employee
of the Month status at a mega-steakhouse, shot epic sweet
sixteen galas, taught high school kids video editing and licked
envelopes for both corporate titans and teensy nonprofits.
Right out of Boston University she landed a gig co-producing
a documentary on Aerosmith’s drummer, which led to useless
amounts of Steven Tyler knowledge and a broadcast on MTV.
(Finally meeting her preteen crush Joe Perry was the most
devastatingly anticlimactic thing to happen in her early twenties.)
Currently
she is working with Ten Speed Press on Let’s Get Primitive,
the city girl’s guide to life in the backcountry, and
producing her feature documentary, Cooking for My Mom, a portrait
of mothers, daughters and food. She has photographed and reported
on everything from elementary school craft projects to Senator
Arlen Specter’s visit for her local paper and been a
contributor to BUST magazine and supernaturale.com.
Someday
she aspires to pen a sufficiently scary horror movie to guarantee
she’ll never sleep again and permanently retreat to
Costa Rica to perfect her pineapple fried rice recipe. Welcome
to Heather’s potluck, a place where you may download
her resume, see and read samples of her work, follow a webumentary
of city girls gone wild in the Kentucky backcountry (yee-haw),
and eventually share your own photographs and sob stories
(because everyone has a good sob story).
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