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Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2007 · nominated
Filmography14 titles

Call Your Mother
2020Director
2020Director

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016Director
2016Director

I Carry You with Me
2020Director, Producer, Screenplay
2020Director, Producer, Screenplay

12th & Delaware
2010Co-Producer, Director
2010Co-Producer, Director

Jesus Camp
2006Director, Producer
2006Director, Producer

Love Fraud
Director, Executive Producer
Director, Executive Producer

One of Us
2017Director, Producer
2017Director, Producer

The Carman Family Deaths
2025Executive Producer
2025Executive Producer

Folktales
2025Director, Producer
2025Director, Producer

The Education of Mohammad Hussein
2012Director, Producer
2012Director, Producer

Endangered
2022Director, Producer
2022Director, Producer

Freakonomics
2010Director, Writer
2010Director, Writer

Baby God
2020Executive Producer
2020Executive Producer

Quad Gods
2024Executive Producer
2024Executive Producer