Katia Maguire  

Katia Maguire is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer and director. Most recently she produced FRIDA, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary about Frida Kahlo. She was post-production supervisor on the hit documentary RBG, about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that was nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards. Her longtime association with public television includes co-directing the PBS film Home Truth, a ten-year longitudinal film about a domestic violence survivor and human rights advocate. She also produced Kingdom of Shadows (PBS/POV) and The Graduates/Los Graduados (PBS/Independent Lens) and was a senior associate producer on PBS' Women, War & Peace. Katia worked with veteran journalist Bill Moyers on several of his weekly PBS public affairs television programs. She was an associate producer on Quest for Honor, a documentary about violence against women in Iraq that was short-listed for the 2010 Academy Awards. Over the course of her almost twenty year career she has been selected for producing fellowships with Impact Partners, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Union Docs, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. She lives in New Jersey and is a mom of two. (7/31)