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April 2005
 Heather
Rae (Cherokee), as Director of the Native American
Program for the Sundance Institute from 1995 to 2001, nurtured
the work of more than fifty emerging Native American screenwriters
and filmmakers. She has also worked to develop the field of Native
filmmaking through her work with Akatubi Entertainment's Film
and Music Program on reservations throughout the West. In 2005
she premiered Trudell , which she directed, at the Sundance
Film Festival. Rae has worked in various capacities on more than
a dozen documentary films including the series 500 Nations
for CBS, Turner Broadcasting's The Native Americans and
Storytellers of the Pacific for PBS. In 2005 Rae produced
American Monster, starring Adam Beach, Gary Farmer, and
Udo Kier. She is currently producing Randy Redroad's The Space
Between All Things. Rae chairs the True West Cinema Festival,
and sits on the board of Treasure Valley Television, in Boise,
Idaho. She is an adjunct professor of communications at Boise
State University. Rae is from rural Idaho.
"I think the state of Native Cinema is ever-growing and
fluid. There is
so much talent and new ideas and even a younger generation that
is stepping forward with provocative images, new traditions and
a solid vision. And the generation before did such important groundwork
to create opportunity and a body of work to stem from. In some
ways my film bridges between those generations— I know it
took me thirteen years to make TRUDELL but the process
overall was just right."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Heather Rae - courtesy of the filmmaker
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