{{short description|American filmmaker}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Heather Quinlan | image = | caption = Quinlan in 2018
| birth_name = Heather Elizabeth Quinlan | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|October|12}} | birth_place = Bronx, New York, U.S. | alma_mater = Ithaca College | occupation = {{flatlist| *Director *Writer *Producer }} | years_active = 1997–present | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Adam McGovern<br />|2020}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Covid-19 has stalled the wedding industry |url=https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/16/covid-19-has-stalled-the-wedding-industry |website=Financial Times |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref> }} }}
'''Heather Quinlan''' is an American writer and filmmaker whose first film, a 2010 short called, ‘’O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn!’’ was called "Charming...an endearing way of making an old poem more relevant" by J. David Goodman of ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goodman |first1=J. David |title=Mash-Ups, Dirty Couches and Rotten Lungs |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/mash-ups-dirty-couches-and-rotten-lungs/ |website=New York Times|access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref> In 2011 she formed her own film company, Canvasback Kid Productions, and in 2013 released her feature-length documentary ''If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent'', starring Pete Hamill, James McBride, Penny Marshall, Amy Heckerling, and Joe Franklin. ''Knishes'' screened at film festivals across the country as well as the Library of Congress, and was covered in the "Talk of the Town" section of ''The New Yorker''.”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wiedeman |first1=Reeves |title=Talk To Me |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/talk-31 |website=The New Yorker|access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref> It chronicles the evolution of the New York accent and if it is disappearing as New York becomes increasingly wealthy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bellafante |first1=Ginia |title=Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/nyregion/do-they-really-tawk-like-that-not-now.html |website=New York Times |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dobkin |first1=Jake |title=Ask A Native New Yorker: Does A 'New York Accent' Make Me Sound Stupid? |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/ask-a-native-new-yorker-does-a-new-york-accent-make-me-sound-stupid |website=Gothamist |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='If These Knishes Could Talk': Is the New York Accent Disappearing? |url=https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2011/08/if-these-knishes-could-talk-the-disappearing-new-york-accent/ |website=MetroFocus |publisher=WNET |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Greene |first1=David |last2=Inskeep |first2=Steve |title=You Know It When You Hear It, Film Honors New York's Accent |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184399458/you-know-it-when-you-hear-it-film-honors-new-yorks-accent |website=Morning Edition |publisher=NPR}}</ref>
Quinlan followed up ''Knishes'' with ''SPOKE: A Short Film About NYC Bikes'' that was partially filmed on Google Glass and screened at the Williamsburg International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loscalzo |first1=John |title=Brooklyn Bugle World Premiere — SPOKE: A Short Film About Bicycles In NYC, Short Partially With Google Glass |url=http://brooklynbugle.com/2013/10/13/brooklyn-bugle-world-premiere-spoke-a-short-film-about-bicycles-in-nyc-short-partially-with-google-glass/ |website=Brooklyn Bugle |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref>
In addition to her work as director, Quinlan also served as producer for the documentary ''For the Love of their Brother'' which aired on PBS, and production manager for ''American River'' which premiered at 2022's Montclair Film Festival and aired on WNET. She also worked in Locations for Woody Allen's ''Café Society'' and ''A Rainy Day in New York''; FX's ''The Americans''; HBO's ''Paterno''; and CBS's ''FBI: Most Wanted''.
Her current work-in-progress, ''American Graveyard'', is a feature-length documentary about the Cherry Lane Cemetery, a 19th-century African-American cemetery on Staten Island that was paved over in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Santia |first1=Marc |title=Cemetery for Enslaved Africans Lies Underneath Staten Island Parking Lot |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/community-top-stories/positively-black/cemetery-for-enslaved-africans-lies-underneath-staten-island-parking-lot/3313013/ |website=WNBC-TV |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref> ''American Graveyard'' was featured in NowThis<ref>{{cite web |title=Family Seeks Justice After Strip Mall Built Over Graves of Formerly Enslaved People |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1859989151028984 |website=NowThis |access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref> and NPR's ''All Things Considered''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Venugopal |first1=Arun |title='It's like a public dump.' How the remains of formerly enslaved people came to rest beneath a Staten Island strip mall |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/its-public-dump-how-remains-formerly-enslaved-people-came-rest-beneath-staten-island-strip-mall/ |website=WNYC News |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref>
Quinlan began her career as an Acquisitions Editor for Sterling Publishing's children's book division, helping to launch their line of picture books and a successful middle-school biography series. In 2018 she was hired by Visible Ink Press to write a book on the history of pandemics, which coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic; Quinlan wrote the COVID-19 chapter during the beginning months of the pandemic.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Westhoven |first1=Bill |title=Hired to write pandemic book in 2018, Parsippany author adds Dr. Fauci on deadline |url=https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/2020/10/16/parsippany-author-adds-dr-anthony-fauci-pandemic-book/3649392001/ |website=Daily Record |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref> The resulting book became ''Plagues, Pandemics & Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19'', and was awarded 2021 Outstanding Reference Source by the American Library Association.<ref>{{cite web |last=Quinlan |first=Heather |title=Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 |url=https://www.visibleinkpress.com/t204/Plagues-Pandemics-and-Viruses-From-the-Plague-of-Athens-to-Covid-19 |website=Visible Ink Press |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Beninger |first1=Paul |title=Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19 |work=The Catholic Library World |id={{ProQuest|2764548062}}}}</ref>
Quinlan also hosts the podcasts ''86'd: A Podcast About the '86 Mets Film that Didn't Get Made'' and ''Cold Storage: The Life and Death of Tom Carvel''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Westhoven |first1=Bill |title=Tom Carvel podcast 'Cold Storage' examines history, ice cream |url=https://subscribe.dailyrecord.com/restricted?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyrecord.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2023%2F07%2F31%2Ftom-carvel-podcast-cold-storage-examines-history-ice-cream%2F70468154007%2F&gps-source=CPROADBLOCKDH&itm_source=roadblock&itm_medium=onsite&itm_campaign=premiumroadblock&gca-cat=p&slug=restricted&redirect=true&offer=W-M7&gnt-eid=control |website=Daily Record |access-date=7 December 2024}}</ref>
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;" |- ! Year ! Title ! width="65"|Director ! width="65"|Producer |- | 2009 | Dinner with Wise Guys | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | 2010 | O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | 2013 | If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | 2014 | SPOKE: A Short Film About NYC Bikes | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- | 2016 | For the Love of Their Brother | {{no}} | {{yes}} |- | TBA | American Graveyard | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |}
== Published works == * {{cite book|last=Quinlan|first=Heather|title=Plagues, Pandemics & Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19|publisher=Visible Ink Press|date=2020|isbn=978-1-578-59704-8}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|3470543|Heather Quinlan}} * [https://www.heathercue.com/ Canvasback Kid Productions] * [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cold-storage-the-life-and-death-of-tom-carvel/id1696351651 Cold Storage: The Life and Death of Tom Carvel] * [https://soundcloud.com/heather-quinlan/86d-a-podcast-about-the-86-mets-film-that-didnt-get-made-episode-one 86'd: A Podcast About the '86 Mets Film that Didn't Get Made]
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