About Us

Heidi & Jeffrey   •   OUT of the Woods Productions

  • Heidi & Jeffrey of OUT of the Woods Productions
Jeffrey Abell has a degree in filmmaking from The College of Santa Fe, and Heidi Sjursen learned the craft from several years on sets, as an actress and model, eventually turning to the other side of the lens full time.  The pair met 15 years ago, danced the night away, fell in love and got hitched. Naturally both being filmmakers, they started their own production company, OUT OF THE WOODS PRODUCTIONS. The company was born in Brooklyn, where they met and lived for several years, eventually relocating to Heidi’s home town of Woodstock New York, where their studio is now based.
They use their own unique style, years of experience, and major creativity to give the viewer a full sense of your brand, and exactly what you do, like no one else can. Let Heidi, Jeffrey & Co. help you take your business to it’s fullest potential, and OUT OF THE WOODS!

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    ★  As major LBGTQ+ Allies, and Heidi being a 3rd Generation Woodstocker, documenting all three divine days of the inaugural WNYP was extremely special to us both. More to come as the wonderful, Woodstock NY PRIDE Team cooks up next year’s magic!
    ★  Currently working on a stunning project with Julie Atlas Muz, the renowned genius of theater, dance, puppetry, film, and burlesque. We’ve been so inspired throughout this collaboration, which is as unique and striking as Julie herself (close at least). TBA
   ★  In post-production on our highly anticipated, Feature Doc, Magic Garden, Magic Women. SUBJECT: Our fave ’70s-’80s kids’ show, the Magic Garden. We tell the story of co-hosts Carole Demas and Paula Janis’s 70-yr friendship and their massive inspirational impact on Gen X viewers - it’s intense! We take a good look at childhood, growing up queer or misunderstood in any way, where women stand, in the workplace and in life, and people as a whole, then and now.