Katy Scoggin is a documentary filmmaker who completed her directorial feature debut, Flood, in 2025. The film is a personal doc that centers on ideological and religious disagreements within Scoggin's e(x)vangelical family of origin. It begins with her journey from estrangement back into tenuous communication with her father, then expands into a wry family portrait that dives into questions about faith, the treatment of others behind closed doors, radical acceptance, and unconditional love. The film looks with humor and poignancy at how members of the same family often see their shared dynamics and story very differently to one another. Flood premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2025 and will broadcast on PBS Independent Lens in 2026. Prior to directing, she worked for fifteen years as a cameraperson and producer on films including The Oath (POV) and Citizenfour (HBO).
In 2016, she filmed as a vérité cinematographer on the campaign trail for an AJ Schnack documentary and a web and TV series. NomiNation, the Vanity Fair web series, was nominated for an IDA Award. In May 2016, she and the Praxis Films team premiered Risk, the Laura Poitras follow-up to Citizenfour, at Cannes. The film's completed version premiered on Showtime and in theaters in May 2017. Scoggin was a co-producer and cinematographer.
While at MacDowell in 2015, she completed a new draft of the script for Flood and during her 2017 residency, she transitioned the then newly shot documentary into post-production. During her 2025 residency, Scoggin wrote the first draft of a new fiction screenplay.
