The award-winning writer of the queer road novel Crashing America (2005), Noyes completed her first two documentary shorts in spring 2026. By summer, both films had been selected for 13 international festivals. A View from Next Door portrays both the darkness and beauty of the American immigrant experience. The Queer Imagination is a lyrical portrait of artist Courtney Desiree Morris.
Katia Noyes brings a full career in the arts—as a novelist, choreographer, and journalist—to intimate, unscripted documentary filmmaking. Chance conversations with people she met around San Francisco sparked ideas for her first films, sometimes prompting her to start filming on the spot. She edits each film by “following the juice” — trusting her instincts to find what’s most alive and truthful in the footage.
A lifelong love of jazz, lyric poetry, and abstract expressionist painting shapes her intuitive approach. Through close collaboration with experienced editors, composers, and other film artists, she’s discovering how the language of film can go straight into what Ingmar Bergman called “the twilight room of the soul.”
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