KATY CHEVIGNY
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / WRITER
Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker and a co-founder of Big Mouth Productions. She has produced and/or directed over a dozen documentary features and series. She is currently writing and directing the forthcoming feature BAD ON PAPER about a Nashville singer and songwriter. Most recently, she won an Emmy for directing two episodes of HOME, a documentary series about innovative architects for A24 / AppleTV+, which were filmed in the Netherlands and in France. With Marilyn Ness, she produced several films, including 2023’s documentary short CAMP COURAGE which was acquired by Netflix. Marilyn and Katy also produced the Netflix Original documentaries BECOMING, about former First Lady Michelle Obama (dir. Nadia Hallgren) which was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Emmy-winning DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (dir. Kirsten Johnson), which also won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary. Katy also produced DARK MONEY (dir. Kimberly Reed), which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and CHARM CITY (dir. Marilyn Ness), which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Both DARK MONEY and CHARM CITY were shortlisted for the 2019 Academy Awards® - Best Documentary Feature. Her original screenplay CAFE NEW YORK won the award for Best Tennessee Feature at the Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition in 2017, and was shortlisted for participation in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival “Breaking Through the Lens”. Katy also co-wrote and co-directed (with Ross Kauffman) the documentary E-TEAM, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, won several festival awards around the world (including Best Documentary at CPH:DOX), was nominated for two Emmy Awards and was acquired as a Netflix Original. She also directed one of the storylines in Kartemquin Films’ documentary series HARD EARNED, winner of a 2016 Alfred I. DuPont Award. She directed ELECTION DAY which premiered at SXSW and was broadcast on POV (PBS) in 2008. She also co-directed DEADLINE (with Kirsten Johnson), which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, won the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award, and, in an unusual acquisition, was broadcast as a primetime special on NBC to an audience of over six million people. Her work has won multiple awards, been shown on networks including Netflix, PBS, NBC, HBO, Arte/ZDF, VPRO and Channel 4, among others, and has played in theaters and at festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, IDFA, SXSW, CPH:DOX, Sheffield and Berlin. In 2018, Katy (together with Marilyn Ness and Big Mouth Productions) was honored with the Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.