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Kate Levy (b. 1984, Royal Oak, Michigan) is a documentary filmmaker and lens-based artist. Drawing on investigative and historical research and collaborations with community organizers, her films and installations interrogate power structures, and reclaim cultural narratives deployed by these systems.

Kate is currently working on her second feature, The Fate of the Machinery, about her family's post-WWII industrial auction business and its role in deindustrialization. Kate's first feature documentary, Whose Water (2024), received a Patagonia Works grant and is distributed by New Day Films. In 2022, Kate’s film Detroit Will Breathe, helped protesters win a $1.3 million settlement from the city of Detroit, and was awarded Best Short Film from the Whistleblower Film Festival in Washington DC and the Shine A Light Award from the Detroit Free Press Film Festival. Kate is a 2018 MacDowell Fellow, and the 2023-2024 Padnos Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at Grand Valley State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in Media and Communications at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.