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Katy Scoggin is a documentary film director, producer, and cameraperson. In November 2025, her directorial debut Flood will premiere internationally at IDFA, where it is nominated for the Cross Section First Feature Award. In October 2025, the film won Best Kansas Feature and Audience Award for Best Kansas Film at the Tallgrass Film Festival. It also screened at New Orleans Film Festival. Flood will premiere on PBS Independent Lens in July 2026.

 

The film begins with Katy's journey home to repair her relationship to her former missionary father before expanding into a dry and poignant family portrait that questions what it takes to love across our deepest divides. A decade in the making, Flood has received support from ITVS, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Film Independent, DCTV, the Gotham Documentary Lab, NYSCA, MacDowell, Logan Nonfiction, the Sundance Institute, and BAVC Media.  

 

Previously, Katy worked for Laura Poitras. 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. She served as cameraperson on in-progress docs  Adam's Apple by Amy Jenkins and Tree People by Regina Sobel. She often produces and directs shortform work for Gates Ventures.

 

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 with her girlfriend in Chicago.