Heather is the Associate Director of Festival Programming at Hot Docs and former Senior International Programmer. She wrote/produced 3 award-winning feature docs (two co-productions with Mexico), a former international programmer for imagineNATIVE, AluCine and a long-time reader for Chicken & Egg. She travels extensively for festivals, juries and WIP labs. Heather was the founder and former ED/AD of Toronto Free Gallery and Culture Storm, former Publisher of Fuse Magazine and a founding collective member and former producer of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto.