Claim: Helen Hill (May 9, 1970 – January 4, 2007) majored in English at Harvard University, where she made a film named Rain Dane and she headed to New Orleans after she graduated.
Evidence: Helen Wingard Hill (May 9, 1970 – January 4, 2007) was an American artist, filmmaker, writer, teacher, and social activist. at Harvard University in 1992, where she majored in English and minored in Visual and Environmental Studies (the academic department housing filmmaking). While at Harvard she made the 16mm animated short Rain Dance (1990) as well as two other animated films. After graduating from Harvard, Hill and her Harvard Class of 92 classmate Paul Gailiunas—merely a close friend at the time— headed to New Orleans for the summer, drawn to the city's vibrant arts and music culture and its progressive social sensibility.