Katy Chevigny

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Katy Chevigny
Born
Katy Gale Chevigny

(1968-10-11) October 11, 1968 (age 57)
New York
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker
Years active1997–present
Notable workDeadline (2004), E-Team (2014), Dark Money (2018)
Spouses
Jonathan Michael Chen
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(m. 2001, divorced)​
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(m. 2011)​
Children1
AwardsThurgood Marshall Journalism Award (for Deadline)

Katy Gale Chevigny (born October 11, 1968)[1] is an American documentary filmmaker. She has produced or directed more than 30 documentary films and won a number of awards for her work.

Early life and education

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Chevigny was born in 1968 or 1969 to Bell Gale Chevigny and Paul G. Chevigny. Her father is a law professor emeritus at NYU Law, where he headed its human rights clinic. Her mother is a literature professor emeritus at Purchase College and edited Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (1999). Chevigny graduated cum laude from Yale University.[1]

Career

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Chevigny was a social worker who started out in film in Chicago and then moved to New York City to start Big Mouth Productions in 1997 with a friend from college, Julia Pimsleur.[2] Pimsleur left the company in 2002.[2] As of 2004 Chevigny's partner in the company was Dallas Brennan.[2] By 2022, Marilyn Ness had joined the company.[3]

With Kirsten Johnson she co-directed Deadline (2004), which won a Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award.[4] The film, an examination of Illinois governor George Ryan's decision to commute the death sentences of everyone awaiting execution in the state, was purchased and broadcast on Dateline NBC, a rare example of a major commercial network acquiring an independent documentary.[5][6][7][a]

Chevigny directed Election Day which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2007 and was broadcast on POV in 2008.[citation needed]

She co-directed with Ross Kauffman the feature-length documentary E-Team, which won Best Cinematography at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival[9] and was released as a Netflix Original in October 2014.[10] She produced the 2014 documentary 1971.[6]

She directed one of six segments of Hard Earned, which aired on Al Jazeera America in 2015 and won an Alfred I. duPont Award.[11]

With Kimberly Reed, Chevigny co-produced Dark Money (2018). PBS purchased distribution rights to the film, planning to include it in the docu-series POV.[12]

Recognition

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Chevigny received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008.[13]

Two films she co-produced have been nominated for an Emmy, in 2020 Becoming and in 2021 Dick Johnson Is Dead,[14] which also won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling at Sundance in 2020.[15]

Film work

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Television work

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Personal life

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Chevigny married Dr. Jonathan Michael Chen in 2001;[1] they later divorced.

In July 2011, she married Jack Smith, a prosecutor working for the U.S. Department of Justice.[18] They have a daughter.[19] The couple lived in the Netherlands from 2018 until 2022, where Smith was working in The Hague, before they moved to Washington, D.C.[20][21]

Notes

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  1. ^ A partial transcript of the film is available online.[8]

References

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