NC Heikin is an American writer, director and producer. Her first documentary, Kimjongilia (2009), about North Korean refugees and dissidents, premiered at Sundance and won the One World Human Rights Award. International best-selling author Michael Connelly produces her critically acclaimed film Sound of Redemption, The Frank Morgan Story (2014), which premieres at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival. It was during the filming of Sound of Redemption that Heikin met Reggie Austin. Life & Life wins the 2019 NYSCA grant. In the fall of 2018, NC completed the documentary Books and Music and a music video, about the collaboration of acclaimed author Lee Child with the roots band Naked Blue. Her screenplay Niki and Joan, about the 1959 meeting of artists Niki de Saint Phalle and Joan Mitchell, is invited to the European screenwriting lab, eQuinox.