Heather Quinlan
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Heather Quinlan | |
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| Born | Heather Elizabeth Quinlan October 12, 1974 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Ithaca College |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
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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.[2] 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.”[3] It chronicles the evolution of the New York accent and if it's disappearing as New York becomes increasingly wealthy.[4][5][6][7]
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.[8]
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 a 19th-century African-American cemetery on Staten Island that was paved over in the 1950s.[9] American Graveyard was featured in NowThis[10] and NPR's All Things Considered.[11]
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.[12] 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.[13][14]
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.[15]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Director | Producer |
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| 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
[edit]- Quinlan, Heather (2020). Plagues, Pandemics & Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-1-578-59704-8.
References
[edit]- ^ "Covid-19 has stalled the wedding industry". Financial Times. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Goodman, J. David. "Mash-Ups, Dirty Couches and Rotten Lungs". New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- ^ Wiedeman, Reeves. "Talk To Me". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- ^ Bellafante, Ginia. "Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now". New York Times. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Dobkin, Jake. "Ask A Native New Yorker: Does A 'New York Accent' Make Me Sound Stupid?". Gothamist. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ "'If These Knishes Could Talk': Is the New York Accent Disappearing?". MetroFocus. WNET. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Greene, David; Inskeep, Steve. "You Know It When You Hear It, Film Honors New York's Accent". Morning Edition. NPR.
- ^ Loscalzo, John. "Brooklyn Bugle World Premiere — SPOKE: A Short Film About Bicycles In NYC, Short Partially With Google Glass". Brooklyn Bugle. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Santia, Marc. "Cemetery for Enslaved Africans Lies Underneath Staten Island Parking Lot". WNBC-TV. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ "Family Seeks Justice After Strip Mall Built Over Graves of Formerly Enslaved People". NowThis. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
- ^ Venugopal, Arun. "'It's like a public dump.' How the remains of formerly enslaved people came to rest beneath a Staten Island strip mall". WNYC News. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Westhoven, Bill. "Hired to write pandemic book in 2018, Parsippany author adds Dr. Fauci on deadline". Daily Record. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ "Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19". Visible Ink Press. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Beninger, Paul. "Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19". ProQuest. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
- ^ Westhoven, Bill. "Tom Carvel podcast 'Cold Storage' examines history, ice cream". Daily Record. Retrieved December 7, 2024.