Ovarian Psycos

Joanna Sokolowski is an Emmy Award-winning producer and creative nonfiction storyteller. Her documentary work has been broadcast on HBO, Netflix, and PBS. Her podcasts have won Webby Awards and are streamed on Stitcher and Spotify. Her critically acclaimed feature documentary Ovarian Psychos premiered at SXSW and on PBS's Independent Lens.

Kate Trumbull-LaValle is a Los Angeles-based independent documentary filmmaker who first began in the field of social justice media as an educator and program coordinator for the Media Arts Center San Diego and the San Diego Latino Film Festival. She directed the short documentary, Abaayo/Sister (2012), an intimate portrait of two Somali friends caught in a cultural tug-of-war. Kate is also associate producer, assistant editor, and archival researcher for Renee Tajima-Peña’s feature length PBS documentary, No More Babies for Life , which profiles the history of Mexican American women coercively sterilized at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and 1970s. In 2013, she formed Sylvia Frances Films with Joanna Sokolowski to direct her first feature documentary, The Ovarian Psycos. Trumbull-LaValle is a UC Berkeley Human Rights Fellow (2010) and graduated with an M.A. from the Social Documentation Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.