Tracy Heather Strain is documentary filmmaker and producer of educational videos and museum segments.

Her credits include: producer/director, Building the Alaska Highway for American Experience; co-producer, Adrift for Tom Curran’s Night Train Pictures; producer/director/writer, The Story We Tell for California Newsreel’s Race: The Power of an Illusion; and producer/director/writer Bright Like a Sun and “The Dream Keepers” for Blackside’s I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Arts, which won a George Foster Peabody Award among other honors.

Strain’s other credits include the multi-award-winning PBS series The Great Depression (Associate Producer/Researcher) and America’s War on Poverty (Series Researcher) as well as Discover: The World of Science (Associate Producer). Her forays into dramatic filmmaking include work at the distribution company Cinecom and a position as art department coordinator on Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala.

She is a co-manager of Filmmakers Workshop, a monthly professional development salon held at the Bernard Toale Gallery.

A principle in The Film Posse, LLC, Strain is presently developing and producing a number of projects including A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Essential Donut Stories and with Chiz Schultz Inc., a feature-length documentary, for which Strain is director, about the late playwright entitled Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project.