Katy Chevigny and Maggie Bowman

Katy Chevigny and Maggie Bowman

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Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker who co-directed the Emmy-nominated documentary Deadline in 2004. She has produced eight feature-length documentaries and recently directed Election Day, which will be broadcast on PBS in 2008. Chevigny runs the non-profit Arts Engine, whose projects include MediaRights.org and the Media That Matters Film Festival.


Maggie Bowman produced Election Day, a verite documentary about American voters on November 2, 2004, that will be broadcast on the PBS series “POV” in 2008. Previously she associate-produced Unfinished Country, a film about Haiti’s 2006 presidential elections. Prior to her work in film, Bowman was a union organizer and consultant, working on campaigns with taxi drivers in the Bronx and nurses in Iowa, among others.

Blog Entries by Katy Chevigny and Maggie Bowman

Full Enfranchisement Not in Political Parties' Interest

Posted August 2, 2007 | 02:07 PM (EST)

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate announced the week before last that they are slowing down their push to implement electoral reform before the 2008 election, preferring to wait until 2012. Their logic of "let's wait until we've got it just right before we change it at all"...

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Valiant and Vexed Voters On-Screen in Election Day

Posted June 26, 2007 | 03:13 PM (EST)

When 50-year-old Leon Batts walks up to his Harlem polling place on November 2, 2004, he is brimming with excitement at the prospect of casting his first vote ever. Leon, a character in Election Day, the latest documentary from Big Mouth Films and Arts Engine, dreams aloud...

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