Katy Scoggin is a documentary film director, producer, cameraperson, and editor. Flood, her directorial debut, will premiere on PBS Independent Lens in 2026. The film begins with Scoggin's journey home to repair her relationship to her former missionary father. It expands into a dry and poignant family portrait, captured mostly in cinéma vérité, that shows how evangelical Christianity has divided her closely knit family. A decade in the making, Flood has received support from ITVS, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Film Independent, DCTV, the Gotham, NYSCA, Logan Nonfiction, and BAVC Media.
Previously, Scoggin co-produced and DP'd on Oscar winner Citizenfour (HBO) and on Cannes Directors Fortnight premiere Risk (Showtime). She produced New York Times OpDocs "The Program" and "Death of a Prisoner" and associate-produced Sundance award winner The Oath (POV). Scoggin was a Mylonas Honorary Scholar at Washington University, a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, and a Graduate Assistant in Cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she completed an M.F.A. in Film Directing. She lives with her girlfriend in Chicago.
At MacDowell, Katy worked on FLOOD at two crucial stages: initially as a draft of a fiction screenplay in 2015, then two years later as a personal documentary into which she'd stepped as a participant. MacDowell was instrumental in getting the resulting film completed.
