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= Heather Courtney =

Heather Courtney is an American filmmaker. Heather Courtney is a documentary director and producer whose films have been screened at SXSW and Silverdocs. Heather Courtney makes politically active documentaries on subjects such as the Iraq War and immigration. She was born on December 31, 1969. She spent eight years as a photographer and writer for the United Nations and refugee and immigrant-rights organizations, working in such places as Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. She received a ​​Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2000. She has made politically active documentaries. Such as: Where Soldiers Come From, a film about soldiers in the Iraq War. And her 2018 documentary: The Unfraid, about three DACA students in Georgia.