Katy Chevigny

Chevigny was born in {{birth based on age as of date|32|2001|9|29|noage=1}} 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.

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.{{Cite web |last=Angell |first=Elizabeth |date=2004-03-01 |title=The Girl Team |url=https://independent-magazine.org/2004/03/01/girl-team/ |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=Independent Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120130612/https://independent-magazine.org/2004/03/01/girl-team/ |url-status=live }} Pimsleur left the company in 2002. As of 2004 Chevigny's partner in the company was Dallas Brennan. By 2022, Marilyn Ness had joined the company.{{Cite web |title=Big Mouth Productions - Team |url=https://www.bigmouthproductions.com/partners |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=Big Mouth Productions |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119191728/https://www.bigmouthproductions.com/partners |url-status=live }}

With Kirsten Johnson she co-directed Deadline (2004), which won a Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award.{{Cite web |date=April 5, 2017 |title=Enterprise Documentary Fund Advisory Board - Katy Chevigny |url=https://www.documentary.org/enterprise-documentary-fund-advisory-board-katy-chevigny |access-date=November 19, 2022 |website=International Documentary Association |language=en |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415050054/https://www.documentary.org/enterprise-documentary-fund-advisory-board-katy-chevigny |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news | access-date = November 21, 2022 | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-07-30-0407300273-story.html | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | date = July 30, 2004 | title = Effective 'Deadline' gets 'Dateline' airing | first = Steve | last = Johnson | archive-date = November 20, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221120234222/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-07-30-0407300273-story.html | url-status = live }}{{Cite journal |last=Villaseñor |first=Irene |date=2008 |title=Election Day by Katy Chevigny: A Film Discussion Guide |via=Academia |url=https://www.academia.edu/38110655 |access-date=2022-11-19 |archive-date=2023-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427032843/https://www.academia.edu/38110655 |url-status=live }}{{efn|A partial transcript of the film is available online.{{cite web | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5578095 | date = August 2, 2004 | title = 'The Abrams Report: Deadline" for July 30 | website = NBC News | access-date = April 27, 2023 | archive-date = November 20, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221120235520/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna5578095 | url-status = live }}}}

Chevigny directed Election Day which premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2007 and was broadcast on POV in 2008.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

She co-directed with Ross Kauffman the feature-length documentary E-Team, which won Best Cinematography at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival{{cite news | access-date = November 20, 2022 | url = https://deadline.com/2014/01/sundance-film-festival-winners-2014-awards-list-671058/ | work = Deadline | date = January 25, 2014 | title = Sundance Awards: 'Whiplash' & 'Rich Hill' Win Grand Jury Prizes; Dramatic Directing Goes To Cutter Hodierne For 'Fishing Without Nets' | first1 = Dominic | last1 = Patten | first2 = Jen | last2 = Yamato | archive-date = June 12, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140612062005/http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/sundance-film-festival-winners-2014-awards-list/ | url-status = live }} and was released as a Netflix Original in October 2014.{{cite web | website = The Wrap | access-date = November 20, 2022 | url = https://www.netflix.com/title/70299286 | title = Netflix's 'E-Team' Trailer Exposes Terrifying Human Rights Abuses | date = September 17, 2014 | first = Greg | last = Gilman | archive-date = November 20, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221120185331/https://www.netflix.com/title/70299286 | url-status = live }} She produced the 2014 documentary 1971.{{Cite web |date=December 2014 |title=December 2014 Filmmaker of the Month - Katy Chevigny |url=https://entertainment.dc.gov/page/december-2014-filmmaker-month-katy-chevigny |access-date=November 19, 2022 |website=DC.gov |archive-date=June 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625175647/https://entertainment.dc.gov/page/december-2014-filmmaker-month-katy-chevigny |url-status=live }}

She directed one of six segments of Hard Earned, which aired on Al Jazeera America in 2015 and won an Alfred I. duPont Award.{{cite web | website = duPont-Columbia Awards | url = https://dupont.squarespace.com/hard-earned | access-date = November 20, 2022 | title = Hard Earned - Al Jazeera America & Kartemquin Films | archive-date = November 20, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221120115750/https://dupont.squarespace.com/hard-earned | url-status = live }}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/pbs-acquires-rights-dark-money-documentary-sundance-1202306467/|title=PBS Acquires Rights To Sundance Docu 'Dark Money'|last=Ramos|first=Dino-Ray|date=2018-03-01|work=Deadline|access-date=November 21, 2018|archive-date=2018-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115858/https://deadline.com/2018/03/pbs-acquires-rights-dark-money-documentary-sundance-1202306467/|url-status=live}}

Chevigny received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008.{{Cite web |title=Katy Chevigny |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/katy-chevigny |access-date=November 19, 2022 |website=MacDowell |language=en |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203234320/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/katy-chevigny |url-status=live }}

Two films she co-produced have been nominated for an Emmy, in 2020 Becoming and in 2021 Dick Johnson Is Dead,{{Cite web |title=Katy Chevigny |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/katy-chevigny |access-date=November 19, 2022 |website=Television Academy |language=en |archive-date=June 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627021922/https://www.emmys.com/bios/katy-chevigny |url-status=live }} which also won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling at Sundance in 2020.{{Cite web |title=U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling — Dick Johnson Is Dead |url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/award-winner-tba-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204142927/https://www.sundance.org/projects/award-winner-tba-07 |archive-date=February 4, 2020 |access-date=November 21, 2022 |work=Sundance Film Festival}}

• Brother Born Again (2001)
• Innocent Until Proven Guilty (2001)
• Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today (2001)
• Nuyorican Dream (2001)
• Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America (2001)
• Deadline (2004)
• Arctic Son (2006)
• Election Day (2007)
• The Teacher (2009)
• Camp Victory, Afghanistan (2010)
• (A)sexual (2011)
• Pushing the Elephant (2011)
• The Internet Must Go (2013)
• 1971 (2014)
• E-Team (2014){{Cite web | title = 'E-team' explores the human side of Human Rights Watch | url = https://www.kbia.org/2014-02-28/e-team-explores-the-human-side-of-human-rights-watch | access-date = January 19, 2022 | website = KBIA BBC World Service | date = February 28, 2014 | first = Rehman | last = Tungekar | language = en | archive-date = December 3, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211203034001/https://www.kbia.org/2014-02-28/e-team-explores-the-human-side-of-human-rights-watch | url-status = live }}{{Cite journal |last=Burde |first=Dana |date=November 1, 2015 |title=E-Team by Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684072 |journal=Comparative Education Review |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=804–806 |doi=10.1086/684072 |issn=0010-4086 |access-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-date=April 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427032844/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684072?cookieSet=1 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}
• Cameraperson (2016)
• Hard Earned, episode 2 (2016)
• Trapped (2016)
• Sasaba (2017)
• Charm City (2018)
• Dark Money (2018)
• Don't Be Nice (2018)
• Becoming (2020)
• Dick Johnson Is Dead (2021)
• The First Step (2021)
• My Two Months in Harlem (2022)

• Great Performances
• Independent Lens
• POV

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

In July 2011, she married Jack Smith, a prosecutor working for the U.S. Department of Justice.{{Cite magazine |year=2012 |title=Class Notes |magazine=Harvard Law Bulletin |volume=63 |page=58 |url=https://docplayer.net/94980938-Harvard-law-new-connections-between-theory-and-practice-bulletin-l-real-world-perspectives-and-hands-on-training-v.html |quote=On July 23, Jack Smith and Katy Chevigny were married on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York by the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis. Smith is serving as the chief of the public integrity section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where the couple lives. |access-date=2023-04-27 |archive-date=2023-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318074438/https://docplayer.net/94980938-Harvard-law-new-connections-between-theory-and-practice-bulletin-l-real-world-perspectives-and-hands-on-training-v.html |url-status=live }} They have a daughter.{{Cite interview |title= Masters/Tri Q&A: Jack Smith |url= http://swimnac.com/masterstri-qa-jack-smith/ |access-date= November 20, 2022 |website= Nashville Aquatic Club |date= January 31, 2018 |archive-date= November 20, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221120002727/http://swimnac.com/masterstri-qa-jack-smith/ |url-status= live }} The couple lived in the Netherlands from 2018 until 2022, where Smith was working in The Hague, before they moved to Washington, D.C.{{cite news |last1=Eisenstadt |first1=Marnie |title=How Jack Smith went from Liverpool football bench to a starring role in Trump investigation |url=https://www.syracuse.com/news/2022/12/how-jack-smith-went-from-liverpool-football-bench-to-a-starring-role-in-trumps-prosecution.html |access-date=December 14, 2022 |work=syracuse.com |date=December 14, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214162425/https://www.syracuse.com/news/2022/12/how-jack-smith-went-from-liverpool-football-bench-to-a-starring-role-in-trumps-prosecution.html |url-status=live }}[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-trump-indictment.html "Who Is Jack Smith, the Special Counsel Who Indicted Trump?"]

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