Heather Quinlan is a New Yorker who’s lived in all five boroughs and whose documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent has been featured in The New York Times, WSJ, NPR, BBC, NBC, CBS, and in festivals around the country. Her short film, “O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn!” about Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” was called “charming … an endearing way of making an old poem more relevant” by The New York Times. She also directed Dinner With Wise Guys, a Little Italy spin on IFC’s “Dinner For Five,” and videos for TLC, the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel.
 
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