October 27-28, 2004
Katy Chevigny
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interview with Chevigny and Johnson>>
Katy Chevigny co-founded Big
Mouth Productions in 1997 with long-time friend and colleague
Julia Pimsleur. Chevigny's producing credits include the award-winning
documentaries Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Nuyorican
Dream, Brother Born Again and Outside Looking
In: Transracial Adoption in America. Chevigny produced and
directed the one-hour documentary Journey to the West: Chinese
Medicine Today. Before founding Big Mouth Productions, Chevigny
produced and directed advocacy videos at the Chicago Video Project,
including The Chicago Jobs and Living Wage Campaign and Cabrini
Green: Mixed In, not Mixed Out.
She is a graduate of Yale University
and the Chicago Community Film Workshop. She currently directs
and produces films at Big Mouth Productions. She recently finished
the film Deadline (screening
at AU Oct. 26 & 27), which she co-directed with Kirsten Johnson,
and which premiered at Sundance 2004. Her latest project is The
Dishes, which she is producing and directing. She also oversees
operations for MediaRights.
Visit Schedule
Oct. 27,
Main Campus, 5:30 p.m. Wechsler Theater
Screening: Deadline
Q&A following screening with Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson
Oct. 28, Main Campus,
5:30 p.m. Wechsler Theater
Discussion: What Makes Media Independent?
Joining the Center as part of the Visiting Filmmaker program,
Katy Chevigny will present her newest film, Deadline
as part of the Human Right Film Series, and on Thursday, Oct.
28 at 5:30 p.m. in Wechsler Theater, Chevigny will discuss the
role of independent media today from her experiences with her
issue-based documentary film company, Big Mouth Productions. Chevigny
will also discuss how she and her colleagues created a resource
to help expand the reach of independent media through the website
and activities of MediaRights. Chevigny's first-hand view of what
"independence" in media really means leads her to explain
how it is both critical to society and commonly misunderstood.
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