Heather Rae participated in Tribeca All Access program, with her project Family: The First Circle. This documentary is intended to explore and question the structure of American families whose children have become wards of the state because of drugs, neglect or poverty. Rae also produced the narrative feature film Frozen River, which was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as part of their Sundance Institute at BAM screening series. This narrative pairs two women, facing different desperations, who smuggle illegal immigrants through a Mohawk reservation in upstate New York.

Heather Rae produced the narrative feature film Frozen River, which had its world premiere at Sundance, where it won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and was acquired by Sony Picture Classics for theatrical release. The film was later featured in the New Directors/New Films festival.  In addition to this, Rae played a leading role in the film IBID, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival.