Heather Fink

Heather Fink came to filmmaking from comedy. She has been making funny videos since she was a kid growing up in small town New Jersey, raised by a Dutch mother and an American father. She started performing stand-up comedy in NYC in 2005, and continued making funny videos, doing improv, and sketch comedy. In 2009 she began NYU's Graduate Film program as Writer/Director. She also pays the bills as a Sound Person, most recently working on Marvel's Daredevil and Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down. Previous jobs include PR for a gay porn company, Senator Kennedy Intern, and Content Strategy for Digital Media companies. She's directed over 35 comedy shorts, most recently Sara Benincasa's "The Focus Group," which was featured on Hello Giggles, The Onion, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, and more. In the 2016, she participated in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Her first feature film as writer/director "Inside You" has just completed Post-Production and is in submission to festivals for 2017. Heather is also in Post-Production on the indie TV pilot "Urban Teach Now" which she directed for writer/producers SJ & Ginny, and is an official selection at the NYTV Fest and ITV Fest this October 2016. As a filmmaker she's directed top comedy talents including Hannibal Buress, Sara Benincasa, Zach Cregger, Will Hines, Kevin Allison, Will Janowitz, Curtis Gwinn, Angela Trimbur, Bobby Tisdale, Slovin and Allen, and Ann Carr. Heather has been featured on MTV, the ECNY Awards as a nominee, as a IFC/Time Warner/Sundance competition finalist, Gawker, Adult Swim, Time Out NY, Dr. Phil, TV Guide Magazine, the LES Film Festival, DC Comedy Fest, Coney Island Film Festival, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlantic City Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, LA Comedy Fest, NY Shorts Fest, Santa Fe Film Festival, and on Comedy Death Ray.