Education
McGill University.
McGill University.
He co-wrote the Bryan Singer-produced horror feature The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) with co-writer Adam Robitel. Other posts in the horror genre include Chillerama and Stephen King"s One Foreign the Road. He is also known for his viral timelapse shorts, which were featured in The Rolling Stones" 2015 Zip Code Tour over Moonlight Mile (song) and the 2016 "am2pm" music video for top German trance duo Cosmic Gate.
An alumnus of McGill University and the American Film Institute.
While attending McGill, he wrote, directed, edited, and acted in two feature films,The Steaks (2000) and Expiration (2004), both filmed primarily in Montreal, Quebec. Heffernan"s experimental timelapses have been featured on Virgin America flights, British Broadcasting Corporation Earth, Bravo"s first scripted show Girlfriends" Guide to Divorce, and many other press and television outlets, including TIME Magazine, National Geographic, Columbia Broadcasting System News, and WIRED, among others
Borrego Springs, California named their 2014 annual festival after Heffernan"s "Borrego Stardance" astro timelapse and October 25 was named "Gavin Heffernan Day" in San Diego County by Senator Joel Anderson. The fundraising campaign generated a tremendous amount of publicity and ended on May 9, 2015 as the fourth most successful Kickstarter campaign ever in the Photobooks category.
On December 5, 2015, Gavin and Harun gave a sold out talk at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and previewed photos and video from their journeys.
SKYGLOW is expected to release Summer 2016. Gavin"s unconventional anti-war documentary Grand Wheel (2008) premiered at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival and played more than fifty film festivals in twenty countries worldwide. After graduating from American Film Institute in 2007, Heffernan co-founded The Film Summit, an event dedicated to the examination and preservation of film relations between Hollywood and Canada, featuring works from Canadian Film Centre and the American Film Institute, presented at the University of Toronto campus.