Katy Chevigny is co-director of Deadline (2004), an Emmy-nominated documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award. In an unusual acquisition of an independent film by a major television network, NBC broadcast DEADLINE as a primetime special on their Dateline series in 2004. She directed Election Day (2007), which screened at Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival in 2007, and was broadcast on U.S. public television in 2008. Chevigny is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Arts Engine, Inc., a non-profit that supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence. These films and others produced by Big Mouth Films can be found at www. artsengine.net/store. Arts Engine's projects include Media Rights (see www. mediarights.org) and the Media That Matters Film Festival.
