ARTIST BIO

Katy Scoggin is an award-winning documentary film director, cameraperson, and producer. Her feature directorial debut, Flood, screened at film festivals worldwide and won Special Mention in International Competition at IDFA in 2025. The film premiered on PBS feature doc strand Independent Lens on July 13, 2026.

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 worked as a cameraperson on Who Moves America (dir. Yael Bridge, prod. Yoni Golijov), Adam's Apple (dir. Amy Jenkins), Tree People (dir. Regina Sobel), and Bootstraps (dir. Deia Schlosberg, prod. Kyle Cadotte). 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 with her partner.