Heather L. Hutton is a producer, director, writer, editor, and sculptor from Atlanta, GA with a BS in Aerospace, a Minor in Physics, and an MFA in Film and Television. She grew up a kid flyer and funded her way through aircraft maintenance school drawing and painting. Some of her aircraft restoration projects are on exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Museum. She is additionally skilled in welding and blacksmithing. Hutton taught both aircraft maintenance and welding at technical schools, assisted in blacksmithing and creative metal fabrication at the Penland School of Craft. Her metal fabrication has been featured in The Walking Dead, First Man, Venom, Super Intelligence, and Jungle Cruise. Hutton contracts for Tyler Perry Studios and known public art sculptors around metro Atlanta and the southeast. She plans to extend her knowledge in filmmaking to feature and television with the intent to direct her own feature about women in aviation. She has produced and directed SAG-AFTRA feature and short films with an inspiring track record in the festival circuit. Recently her proof of concept, Touch & Go, received the Global Shorts Award of Excellence in Editing.