Heather Rae is a film and television producer and an activist. She has produced such films as Academy Award nominated Frozen River, Netflix Originals Tallulah and Dude, festival darling I Believe in Unicorns, award-winning The Dry Land and Cannes-premiere Bull. Recently she produced Fancy Dance with Lily Gladstone. Rae has been recognized as one of Variety’s Producers to Watch and won the Piaget and Cinereach Producers Awards. She is a member of the Academy and serves on the Producers Branch Executive Committee.

Rae is currently in a First Look producing deal with Amazon Studios and is an Executive Producer on Amazon’s Outer Range starring Josh Brolin.

For the past six years Rae has worked as a narrative change strategist at IllumiNative. Throughout her career has worked to foster the voices of artists and evoke systemic change.