Heather Hale is a film and television director, screenwriter and producer. She wrote the $5.5 million dollar Lifetime Original Movie The Courage to Love (2000) which starred Vanessa Williams, Stacy Keach, Gil Bellows and Diahann Carroll. She directed, produced and co-wrote the million dollar feature Absolute Killers (2011) which was marketed by distributors at Le Marche du Film and the American Film Market.

Heather’s new book Story$elling: How to Develop, Market and Pitch Film & TV Projects is about to be published by Michael Weise Productions. Her How to Work the Film & TV Markets: A Guide for Content Creators was published in 2017 by Focal Press/Routledge.

For over two decades, Heather has served as an international keynote speaker, teacher, moderator, panelist and custom workshop facilitator for film and TV markets, festivals, writers workshops, colleges and universities and Chambers of Commerce around the globe, including creative adventure weeklong retreats such as StoryTellers on WalkAbout.

Ms.. Hale was the Independent Film and Television Alliance’s Industry Liaison for the 2013 American Film Market. IFTA, the non-profit that runs the AFM, approved her as a qualified independent producer to pitch projects to NBC/Universal for their annual development fund.