Katy Chevigny
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About
KATY CHEVIGNY, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Arts Engine, a leading independent media nonprofit and its production arm, Big Mouth Films. She directed the film Election Day (2007) which premiered at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in 2007 and was broadcast on POV in 2008. With Kirsten Johnson, she co-directed Deadline, an investigation into Illinois governor George Ryan's commutation of death sentences. After premiering at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Deadline was broadcast on NBC to an audience of over six million, in an unusual acquisition of an independent film by a major network. It was nominated for an Emmy Award and won the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award, among others. Chevigny also directed Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today, a feature-length documentary about traditional Chinese medicine and its influence in the West. She has produced several acclaimed documentaries: Arctic Son, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Nuyorican Dream, Brother Born Again, Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America and (A)sexual. Chevigny’s films have been shown theatrically, on HBO, Cinemax, POV, Independent Lens, NBC, and Arte/ZDF, among others and have played at film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Full Frame, SXSW, Sheffield and Berlin. Most recently, she produced Pushing the Elephant, which premiered on Independent Lens in 2011.
E-Team
E-TEAM follows the intrepid and often hazardous work of four human rights investigators as they document abuses in the midst of conflict zones in Syria and Libya. The investigators are members of the Emergencies Team, or E-Team, of an international human rights organization. Human rights abuses thrive on secrecy and silence – the job of the E-Team is to tear away the secrecy and give a voice to the victims whose stories might otherwise never be heard.