Heidi's New York Film Academy (NYFA) Producing Conservatory short film "Matthew's Monsters" was selected for the 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner. Heidi adapted this film from a story ...Show More
Heidi's New York Film Academy (NYFA) Producing Conservatory short film "Matthew's Monsters" was selected for the 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner. Heidi adapted this film from a story in the book "Icarus of Brooklyn" by Matthew Alper, which she is developing into a feature film.As a recent NYFA Producing Conservatory graduate, Heidi was selected as 1 of only 150 students to participate in the 2017 Cannes Film/Film Business Program with the American Pavilion and was also nominated by NYFA as a candidate for the 2017-2019 Producer's Guild Fellowship Program.After a 25+ year career as a corporate executive and business developer in the defense contracting industry, Heidi returned to school at NYFA in New York City to learn producing, filmmaking, and directing. While at NYFA, she wrote, directed, produced, and edited 6 short films and supported over 15 other short films as Producer, Production Supervisor, Production Designer, Casting Director, Director, DP, and/or Editor. She also produced and edited a Reality TV Sizzle Reel and Commercial, and was the Production Designer and Editor for a music video. Heidi relocated to NYC and started Mixed Sygnls Productions LLC in early 2016 and is developing 3 full-length feature films, a competition/elimination show, a reality TV series, two scripted TV series, and two spec commercials.While at NYFA, she interned with HudSun Media in NYC where she worked on the ID Channel reality series Bad Blood - Season Two as a Researcher. After graduation, HudSun hired Heidi to continue her research support for episode development and she assisted the production team to prepare to shoot the 5th episode. Hide
