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‘Flood’ Director Katy Scoggin on Exploring Her Own Escape From Christian Fundamentalism in Visions du Réel Doc (EXCLUSIVE)
The Visions du Réel work in progress ‘Flood’ by U.S. director Katy Scoggin is executive produced by Laura Poitras.
Poitras now serves as executive producer on Scoggin’s feature debut “Flood,” one of six creative documentaries to be pitched as works in progress April 16, at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland. As the story unfolds, she relies on evolution to try to grasp change over time: in the fossil record, in American evangelicalism and in her own shift away from her parents’ religion and back home to reconnect. After working with Laura on three features (“The Oath,” “Citizenfour,” “Risk”) and two shorts (“The Program,” “Death of a Prisoner”), I went home, looked inside my own gut, and found what power I wanted to speak to.
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