Director / Producer
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, The Easy Kind, 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 France. With Marilyn Ness, she produced several films, including the 2023 documentary short Camp Courage (dir. Max Lowe), which was acquired by Netflix. Marilyn and Katy also produced the acclaimed 2020 documentaries Becoming (dir. Nadia Hallgren), and Dick Johnson is Dead (dir. Kirsten Johnson). Katy also co-directed (with Ross Kauffman) E-Team, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She also directed one of the storylines in Kartemquin Films’ documentary series Hard Earned, winner of a 2016 Alfred I. DuPont Award. Her work has been distributed by PBS, NBC, Netflix, AppleTV+, HBO, Arte/ZDF, VPRO and Channel 4, among others, and has played in theaters and at festivals around the world.