2008

Heather Rae | Producer, Frozen River

Heather Rae is an American film producer, director and actress. She produced Frozen River (2008), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as two Academy Awards nominations and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.

One of her first films was a short documentary in 1990 called Birth Our Own. Other directing filmography includes Trudell (2005).

Rae has also worked as an actress, in the movies Silent Tears (1998), Backroads (2000), Christmas in the Clouds (2001), Most Funniest (2005), Norman Waiting (2006), and Disappearance (2006).

Rae is married to screenwriter/director Russell Friedenberg and has three children. Her 12-year-old daughter, Johnny Sequoyah, starred as Bo Adams on the NBC television series Believe.

As of the spring of 2008, Rae was an adjunct professor of communications at Boise State University, teaching “Producing the Independent Film.”