Katy Scoggin, age 37, is an award-winning documentary director, producer, and camerawoman who graduated from San Bernardino High School. She attended Wash U in St. Louis, where she earned a BFA/BA in sculpture/German, followed by a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed her to film with Berlin’s immigrant Turkish population for a year. She then headed to NYU, where she completed an MFA in film directing. 

In 2017, Katy returned to San Bernardino to shoot her own feature documentary, Flood, with her evangelical family that explores the polarizing beliefs that threaten to break families apart. Flood has received support from the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, the Sloan Foundation, NYU, and the MacDowell Colony and is due for completion in 2019.

In March of 2018, Katy returned to her hometown again: this time to shoot a short documentary featuring girls at San Bernardino High School preparing for the prom as they talk about growing up in this place that they are kind of ashamed of, but fiercely love. She hopes the short will lead to securing funding to produce a feature length documentary about San Bernardino’s decline and troubled times and the local efforts underway to turn this city around.

Like most documentary filmmakers, Katy lives on a subsistence income, sleeping on couches and generally relying on the kindness of others when filming in San Bernardino as she attempts to tell real stories about real people.

Katy worked for Laura Poitras as a co-producer and cinematographer on the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR living in Berlin while it was unsafe to work on the film in the US. Throughout 2016, she filmed cinema vérité on the American campaign trail for filmmaker and Field of Vision co-founder AJ Schnack.

Nominated by Susan Lien Longville of San Bernardino.