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Heidi Ewing

Director Writer

Heidi Ewing is a director, producer, and writer of documentary films. She and Rachel Grady founded Loki Films in 2001, and have collaborated on several documentaries together. Detropia won two awards, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Original Score, at the 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Ewing is a native of Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a graduate of Mercy High School and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

Known For

Filmography

Folktales
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★ 7.2
Folktales
2025 Director
Endangered
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★ 6.6
Endangered
2022 Director
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Mind/Trip
2021 Director
I Carry You with Me
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★ 6.7
I Carry You with Me
2020 Director Writer
Love Fraud
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★ 6.4
Love Fraud
2020 Director
Call Your Mother
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★ 6.3
Call Your Mother
2020 Director
Dogs
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★ 8.0
Dogs
2018 Director
One of Us
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★ 7.0
One of Us
2017 Director
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
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★ 7.3
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016 Director
A Dream Preferred
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A Dream Preferred
2015 Director
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The World Is as Big or As Small as You Make It
2015 Director
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
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★ 5.7
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
2014 Director
Makers: Women Who Make America
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★ 7.5
Makers: Women Who Make America
2013 Director
The Education of Mohammad Hussein
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★ 5.6
The Education of Mohammad Hussein
2013 Director
Nine for IX
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★ 6.3
Nine for IX
2013 Director
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★ 3.8
Vanity Fair: Decades
2013 Director
Detropia
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★ 6.5
Detropia
2012 Director
Freakonomics
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★ 6.3
Freakonomics
2010 Director Writer
12th & Delaware
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★ 7.2
12th & Delaware
2010 Director
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★ 4.6
The Lord's Boot Camp
2008 Director
Jesus Camp
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★ 7.4
Jesus Camp
2006 Director
The Boys of Baraka
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★ 7.3
The Boys of Baraka
2005 Director
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Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project
2003 Director
Now on PBS
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★ 6.6
Now on PBS
2002 Director
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Rite of Passage
2001 Director
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Guns in America
1999 Director Writer
True Life
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★ 7.3
True Life
1998 Director
Investigative Reports
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★ 8.2
Investigative Reports
1991 Director Writer
P.O.V.
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★ 8.1
P.O.V.
1988 Director
American Masters
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★ 8.2
American Masters
1985 Director
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The Travel Writer
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