Writer/Producer
Lecturer
Contact details for Heather Phillips
Heather Phillips began her career as an actress. A year in Los Angeles led to her first short film as producer. The result Leap, with 'Flacco' at the helm, saw her admitted to The American Film Institute where she received her MFA in Producing. She worked extensively in script development in the US, including the films Til Human Voices Wake Us and A Course in Miracles (made as the US mini-series Miracles).
Heather continues to write and produce, recently penning the documentaries Gone to a Good Home and The Juggling Mother for Film Australia, the former of which she co-produced. She has two feature films at financing stage, Salt that she also co-wrote and Bird where she is also attached as script editor.
Salt was selected for the 2008 Berlinale co-production market and it won the 2007 Australian Writer's Guild/Adelaide Film Festival's best-unproduced script award, Insite. Heather is adapting her first optioned novel and lectures at Griffith Film School in writing and producing.