KATIA NOYES

Filmmaker & Writer
“I look for what’s most alive.”
Photo: Gary Hoskins / The Image and Light Studio

The Queer
Imagination

A lyrical portrait of artist Courtney Desiree Morris.

7 minutes

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Festival selections

Official Selection, London Breeze Film Festival 2026Official Selection, Way OUT West Film Fest 2026Official Selection, Cinema Diverse, Palm Springs, 2026Official Selection, The Women’s Film Festival 2026Official Selection, OutSouth Queer Film Festival 2026Official Selection, International Experimental Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2026Winner, Best Short Documentary, Rome Prisma Prize

A View from
Next Door

Three San Franciscans who fled civil war and violence speak about the heartbreak and romance of America.

“Candid and sincere, openhearted without being sentimental.” — Letterboxd

10 minutes

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“Candid and sincere, openhearted without being sentimental.” — Letterboxd

Festival selections

Official Selection, Tacoma Film Festival 2026Official Selection, Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2026Official Selection, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival 2026Official Selection, Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest 2026

A Life in
the Arts

Katia Noyes is a San Francisco filmmaker and writer whose lifelong love of jazz, lyric poetry, and abstract expressionist painting inspires her intuitive approach to directing. She came to filmmaking recently, after many years in the arts as a dancer, arts journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Katia Noyes dancing in front of an abstract mural
Dancer
Cover of Crashing America by Katia Noyes
Novelist
Screenplay pages and a laptop beside the Golden Gate Bridge
Screenwriter
Katia Noyes being filmed by director Daniel Talbott on a San Francisco beach
Filmmaker

Next project

In Future Right Now, Katia Noyes talks with visionary artists, scientists, and activists about the future we can create together.