Kate Levy is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Her documentary films, installations, sculptures, texts, and photography series interrogate power structures, political memory, and cultural narratives. She has worked on projects related to water, education, police violence, immigration, and environmental and economic justice. Her work has been exhibited at museums, cultural centers, film festivals, and conferences in the U.S. and internationally.
In 2015, Levy’s work with the ACLU of Michigan helped expose the Flint Water Crisis. She was a 2017 Patagonia Works grant recipient for her feature film WHOSE WATER (New Day Films, 2024) and a 2018 MacDowell Fellow. From 2019 to 2021, Levy served as co-director of the Youth Documentary Workshop at Educational Video Center in New York City.
Her 2021 short DETROIT WILL BREATHE was featured in the Ann Arbor Film Festival Off-the-Screen Series and received awards at the Freep Film Festival and the Whistleblower Film Festival. From 2023 to 2024, she was the Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Grand Valley State University, where she produced a series of public art installations about the multinational conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries. She is currently working on her second feature, probing her family’s multi-generational business auctioning off machines from shuttered factories.
