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Katia Noyes brings a lifelong love of lyric poetry, abstract expressionist painting, and jazz to her documentary work. She often finds her subjects through chance conversations with neighbors or people she meets in museums and parks around San Francisco, and has been known to start filming on the spot. She discovers her films in the footage, looking for what's most alive, and shapes the edit by "following the juice."
 

The award-winning author of the queer road novel Crashing America (2005), Noyes completed her first two documentary shorts in spring 2026. A VIEW FROM NEXT DOOR portrays both the darkness and beauty of the American immigrant experience. THE QUEER IMAGINATION, about artist Courtney Desiree Morris, won Best Short Documentary at the Rome Prisma Film Awards. Festival selections for the two films include the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest and the London Breeze Festival.
 

Noyes has spent her life in the arts, touring in dance companies and working as an arts journalist and screenwriter. She’s surprised to find herself a director, but by working closely with editors to cut images with sound, she's grateful to be learning the language of film — one that bypasses thought and goes straight into what Ingmar Bergman called "the twilight room of the soul."