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= Heather Courtney = Heather Courtney is an award-winning documentary film director and producer based in Austin, Texas.

Biography
Heather studied at the University of Texas and earned a master's degree in film production. Before she recieved her master's degree, Heather spent eight years as a photographer for the United Nations and refugee rights organisations; most notably photographing Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Her work highlights social justice issues through the telling of personal stories. One of her most well-known works, Where Soldiers Come From (2011) won an Emmy, The Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award, and a SXSW Jury Award.

Heather has a large collection of awards and fellowships. She hold the United States Artists Fellowship alongside grants from ITVS and the Sundance Documentary Fund. In 2014, Heather was named as a Guggenheim fellow, as well as being awarded as a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow. She returned to the University of Texas after recieving her master's degree as a periodic adjunct professor of documentary film, and has taught Master Classes in documentary filmmaking in several other universities.

Director

 * The Unafraid (2018)
 * Healing Waters (2014)
 * Stories of the Mind (2016 - 2017) Episodes: Soldier's Stories (2017) and Veterans (2016)
 * Postcards from the Great Divide Episodes: The Big Sort (2016)
 * P.O.V. Episodes: Where Soldiers Come From (2011) and Critical Condition (2008)

Producer

 * The Unafraid (2018)
 * P.O.V. Episodes: Where Soldiers Come From (2011) and Critical Condition (2008)
 * Letters From the Other Side (2006)
 * Independent Lens Episodes: Los Trabajadores/The Workers (2003)

Camera and Electrical Equipment

 * Come and Take It (2018)
 * The Long Ride (2017)
 * Independent Lens Episodes: Sunshine (2010, camera operator), Girl Wrestler (2004, camera operator), and Los Trabajadores/The Workers (2003, camera operator and still photographer)
 * Trinidad (2008, additional camera operator)
 * The Cassidy Kids (2006, still photographer)

Cinematographer

 * The Unafraid (2018)
 * P.O.V. Episodes: Where Solders Came From (2011)
 * Independent Lens Episodes: Sunshine (2010)
 * Letters from the Other Side (2006)

Editor

 * Stories of the Mind Episodes: Soldiers' Stories (2017)
 * Healing Waters (2014)
 * P.O.V. Episodes: Where Soldiers Come From (2011)
 * Independent Lens Episodes: Los Trabajadores/The Workers (2003)