Biography

Heather Page is the Co-Founder of The Shine Company, a film infrastructure and tourism consulting firm started in 2021 with fellow industry veteran Mindy Raymond. ShineCo.'s signature educational program, ShineCo. Academy, provides online training for Film Commissions, Municipalities, DMO's, CVB's, and Chambers of Commerce for building sustainable Film Tourism and Film-Friendly Community programs.

Originally intent on a career as a sound effects editor, Heather was lured into the camera department as a camera PA early in her career. Not formally trained in cinematography, she learned her craft on the job from the bottom up. Heather was mentored by some of the most legendary DP's, Operators, and Camera Assistants in the business to become an in-demand focus puller, especially for her Steadicam assisting work, and camera operator at a time when women in the camera department were few, especially on big-budget studio projects.

In 2012, while sitting on a dolly on set in L.A., Heather received a life-changing call notifying her she had been appointed Director of the Texas Film Commission by Governor Rick Perry. During her TFC tenure, she retooled the state's incentive program and raised its rates to be more competitive which brought instant success to the state, increasing Texas' production and job creation by more than 250%. She also implemented Texas' Media Production Development Zone facility incentive (MPDZ), created the agency's first online film tourism venture - the Texas Film Trails, and spearheaded programming changes widely recognized for broadening Texas Film Commission's outreach and marketing efforts to both the industry and Texas communities while improving the agency's efficiency.

After leaving the TFC in 2017, Heather worked as an industry consultant and served as Interim Studios Director at Austin Studios for the Austin Film Society to oversee the organization's facility expansion.

Heather is a graduate of Denison University, New York University, and the American Film Institute. Heather has served on the boards of the Austin Film Society, Association of Film Commissioners International, International Cinematographers Guild, Texas Motion Picture Alliance, and the Advisory Board of Women in Film & TV-Austin. Heather, along with actors Kyle Chandler and Brad Leland, co-founded the Beyond the Lights Celebrity Golf Classic (2008-2013), which raised funds for the spinal cord injury charities the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis and Gridiron Heroes Spinal Cord Injury Foundation.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: The Shine Company