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Heather Hale got on the Hollywood map when The Courage to Love, the $5.5 million dollar Lifetime Original Movie starring Vanessa Williams (and now available on DVD) was produced off her spec screenplay.
Since then, she’s written and produced 45-hours of award-winning television, including: The Evidence, a news magazine/docudrama series that won “Best New Series Pilot” at the Houston WorldFest and Lifestyle Magazine, a holistic health talk show hosted by Clifton Davis (Amen, Any Given Sunday) that won two Tellys.
Prior to that, Heather was on the writing staff of two PBS edutainment series, Psychology and Personal Finance, both of which won Emmys and ACE Awards.
Heather was the Director of Event Programming for the National Association of Television Program Executives NATPE ’05 event at the Mandalay Bay Resorts in Las Vegas that attracted over 8,000 Television Executives from around the world to hear over 200 speakers including Ted Turner and NATPE’s 2004 TV Producers’ Boot Camp.
Heather is a Jury Judge and mentor for the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition alongside Ivan Reitman (Ghost Busters, Stripes, Animal House), Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under), Linda Seger and Dara Marks.
Heather has become a highly sought-after keynote speaker, interactive workshop lecturer and panelist at colleges, corporations and entertainment industry events across the country including: the Austin Film Festival, the Vail Film Festival, the Screenwriters’ Expo, Slamdance, Moondance, the Willamette Writers Conference, The American Screenwriters Association, Selling to Hollywood, The Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, Hollywood By The Bay, The Great American Pitch Fest, The Northwest Screenwriters Guild, The Temecula Film Festival, UC Riverside, CSUN and The Los Angeles Film School. She teaches “Writing Business Plans for Independent Films” at Cinema Arts Tech and her PowerNetworking classes continue to rank as the fourth most popular Learning Annex class (right behind Donald Trump). She also teaches online with TheIndustry.LA (“The Craig’s List of Hollywood”).
Heather volunteers her time with emerging screenwriters through organizations including the Scriptwriter’s Network, The Independent Feature Project, The Kingman Lab and the Film Industry Network.
Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Heather formed a privately held mortgage-banking corporation. As CFO, she was instrumental in taking the business from a start-up operation to a thriving business that funded over $2 million every month. She was the President of the Association of Professional Mortgage Women and the Vice President of the San Juan Capistrano Chamber of Commerce, where she won a Senate Commendation for her fervent efforts to help her city avoid being dragged through the Orange County bankruptcy. Prior to that, she was an instructor for a corporation in Kobe, Japan.
Heather maintains a full schedule speaking, writing, producing and consulting. She is currently writing a book, PowerNetworking: The Secret Hollywood Code, based on her popular classes and consulting services. She has a full slate of film and television scripts in various stages of development and packaging, including $30M in UK co-production funds raised and a director attached to an independent romantic comedy and heat for her low budget directorial debut as well as a couple of sitcom pilots. Heather is also breaking in to stand-up comedy to help her pitching and speaking skills — and her comedy. Heather does private screenplay analysis and consults on project marketing strategies.
www.HeatherHale.com
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