Katia Noyes
Writer & Filmmaker
A lyrical portrait of artist and scholar Courtney Desiree Morris asks what the queer imagination makes possible in the face of erasure. Moving through intimate studio footage, photographic montage, and large-scale performance, the film explores queerness as a source of creativity, resilience, and hope.
A View From Next Door
At a time when few immigrants feel safe going on camera, three San Franciscans who fled civil war and violence speak about the heartbreak and romance of America.
Editing by Thomas Lorne Music by Joel St. Julien
Color by Jamie LeJeune Sound by Dan Olmsted
Editing by Thomas Lorne Music by Joel St. Julien
Color by Jamie LeJeune Sound by Dan Olmsted
Future Right Now
Last summer, I started talking with younger folks about how they felt about the future. It became my first documentary film experiment.
Music by G/A/S Produced by Felix Mack
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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I ventured into screenwriting and film after my first novel, Crashing America, caught the attention of producers and actors. It's a story about a genderqueer runaway looking for the love she's never known.
Lisa Bastoni wrote "Come On Home" for Crashing America. Recorded by Sean Staples at Wesley Park Studio.
WHO'S AFRAID OF HOLLYWOOD?
A twisted Valentine to the Hollywood industrial complex. It draws on my misadventures working to produce an indie feature film.
Actors Veronica Hart and Romeo Channer
were invaluable in helping me develop the script
