Biography

Brooklyn born director JR Heffelfinger is an artist and filmmaker working in New York City, Puerto Rico and Los Angles. He began his career with his debut feature film "Niji No Shita Ni", which was filmed in Tokyo, Japan and had it's world premiere at the 28th Mill Valley Film Festival. The film was reviewed as "being touched by the spirits of Kurosawa and Imamura and resonating with the resilient glow of life" and JR was noted in Variety as "an emerging talent". As a documentary filmmaker, he quickly garnering a reputation for embedding himself in some of the most dangerous places in the world, giving voice to the voiceless and making the in...Read More