Katy Chevigny
Katy Gale Chevigny (born ) is an American documentary filmmaker. She has produced or directed more than 30 documentary films and won a number of awards for her work. Early life and education Chevigny was born in to Bell Gale Chevigny and Paul Chevigny. Her father taught law at New York University and as of 2001 led the university's human rights clinic. Her mother taught literature at Purchase College and edited ''Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing'' (1999). Chevigny graduated '' cum laude'' from Yale University Career 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. Pimsleur left the company in 2002. As of 2004 Chevigny's partner in the company was Dallas Brennan. As of 2022 Marilyn Ness had joined the company. With Kirsten Johnson she co-directed ''Deadline'' (2004), which won a Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award. The film, an examination ...
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the non-denominational all-male institution began its first classes near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education. The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus in Greenwich Village surrounding Washington Square Park. Since then, the university has added an engineering school in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center and graduate schools throughout Manhattan. NYU has become the largest private university in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students, including 26,733 undergraduate students and 25,115 graduate students, in 2019. NYU also receives the most applications of any private institution in the United States and admission is considered highly selective. NYU is organized int ...
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