Heidi Ewing

Director

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.

Directed 18

2020s

2025
Folktales
Director
2022
Endangered
Director
75
2021
I Carry You with Me
Director
2020
Love Fraud
Director
Call Your Mother
Director

2010s

2018
Black Memorabilia
Script Supervisor
2017
One of Us
Director
77
2016
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Director
2015
A Dream Preferred
Director
2013
Branded
Director
Makers: Women Who Make America
Director
2012
Detropia
Director
The Education of Mohammad Hussein
Director
2010
Freakonomics
Director
62
12th & Delaware
Director
72

2000s

2006
Jesus Camp
Director
74
2005
The Boys of Baraka
Director

1990s

1999
360° Reportage
Director

Produced 13

2020s

2025
The Carman Family Deaths
Executive Producer
Folktales
Producer
2024
Quad Gods
Executive Producer
2022
Endangered
Producer, Executive Producer
75
2021
I Carry You with Me
Producer
2020
Love Fraud
Executive Producer
Baby God
Executive Producer
62

2010s

2017
One of Us
Producer
77
2012
Detropia
Producer
The Education of Mohammad Hussein
Producer
2010
12th & Delaware
Co-Producer
72

2000s

2006
Jesus Camp
Producer
74
2005
The Boys of Baraka
Producer

Wrote 2

2020s

2021
I Carry You with Me
Screenplay

2010s

2010
Freakonomics
Writer
62