Artist Bio

Katy Scoggin is an award-winning documentary film director, cameraperson, and producer. Her feature directorial debut, Flood, has screened at film festivals worldwide and premiered on PBS Independent Lens in July 2026. In 2025, the film won a Special Mention in International Competition at IDFA.

Previously, Katy worked for Laura Poitras on three features and two shorts, including Oscar-winning CITIZENFOUR (HBO), Risk (Showtime), and Emmy-nominated The Oath (POV). She served as a cameraperson on Adam's Apple (dir. Amy Jenkins), Who Moves America (dir. Yael Bridge), Tree People (dir. Regina Sobel), and Bootstraps (dir. Deia Schlosberg). She was a Mylonas Honorary Scholar at WashU, a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, and a Graduate Assistant at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she got an MFA in Film Directing. She lives in Chicago.