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Katy Scoggin is a documentary filmmaker. FLOOD, her directorial debut, will be released in 2025 on Independent Lens. The film begins with Katy's journey home to repair her relationship to her former missionary father. It expands into a dry and poignant family portrait, captured mostly in cinéma vérité, that shows how fundamentalism divides US-American families from the inside out. A decade in the making, FLOOD has received support from ITVS, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, DCTV, NYU's Production Lab, the Gotham Documentary Lab, NYSCA, MacDowell, Logan Nonfiction Program, Women Make Movies, and BAVC Media.  

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Previously, Katy worked for Laura Poitras on three features and two shorts. She co-produced and DP'd on Oscar winner CITIZENFOUR and on Cannes Directors Fortnight premiere RISK. She produced NY Times OpDocs The Program and Death of a Prisoner and associate-produced Sundance award winner THE OATH. More recently, Katy worked as a cameraperson on in-progress docs ADAM'S APPLE by Amy Jenkins and Wonder Collaborative doc TREE PEOPLE by Regina Sobel. 

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Katy was a Mylonas Honorary Scholar at WashU, a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, and a Graduate Assistant in Cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she received an MFA in Film Directing. She lives in Brooklyn and Chicago.