Heather Young is a Canadian filmmaker based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Originally from Saint John, New Brunswick, Young is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD).
Her thesis film Dog Girl won the Norman McLaren Award for Best Student Film at the Montreal World Film Festival. Her other short films include Green (2013) and Howard and Jean (2014). Her short Fish received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Short at the Vancouver International Film Festival and played at TIFF Canada's Top Ten in 2017. Her short Milk won Best Short Film in the Focus Québec/Canada competition[1] at Festival du nouveau cinéma and also played at TIFF Canada's Top Ten in 2018.
Her feature film debut, Murmur, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery Prize.[3] In December 2019, it was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list of the year's best Canadian films.[4] It also won the John Dunning Award for Best First Feature at the Canadian Screen Awards.[5]