Heather Quinlan
About
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. 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.” It chronicles the evolution of the New York accent and if it's disappearing as New York becomes increasingly wealthy.
