Jocelyn is an award-winning filmmaker with more than twenty-five years of experience creating character-driven documentaries about the arts and urgent social issues. She produced the Academy Award–nominated My Country, My Country, part of Laura Poitras’ post-9/11 trilogy, and directed the Emmy Award–nominated The Flute Player, about Arn Chorn-Pond—a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who became an international human rights advocate. The Flute Player received a Cine Golden Eagle Award, won Best First Feature at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and aired on the acclaimed PBS series POV.

Her recent short film ICEBREAKERS, co-directed and produced with Marlo Poras, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and continued its 2025 festival run before debuting on The New Yorker in February 2026. The film explores  the legacy of the Gay Games as a more inclusive alternative to the Olympics — and celebrates the athletes striving to redefine their sport.

Jocelyn’s films consistently push the documentary form while centering intimate human stories. She produced Furusato, an examination of the long-term consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. The film screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, won a Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, and was distributed theatrically in Europe. She also produced Sun Kissed, following a Navajo couple seeking answers about mysterious illnesses affecting children in their community after sun exposure.

As director of Catching Babies, Jocelyn chronicled American lay midwives working to preserve non-medicalized birthing options amid mounting legal pressures—continuing her focus on individuals challenging institutional systems in pursuit of dignity and choice.

Jocelyn studied at Hampshire College, where she was mentored by experimental video artists Joan Braderman and Sherry Millner, and developed a documentary photo portfolio on women’s manual labor in India, China, and Japan under the guidance of Carrie Mae Weems. After graduating, she worked with cinéma vérité pioneer Albert Maysles at Maysles Films in New York City, where she refined her belief that sensitivity is a creative strength.

Her commitment to the performing arts includes work as Associate Producer for Great Performances on WNET, contributing to dance programs such as Two by Dove, choreographed by Ulysses Dove and performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Royal Swedish Ballet, and Griot New York, choreographed by Garth Fagan. She also worked on the PBS series Dance Around the World and a film about ballet dancer Jacques d'Amboise and his New York City public schools dance program.

In addition to her independent work, Jocelyn has directed and produced films for mission-driven organizations and cultural institutions. Her projects include a short film about a landmark New York senatorial fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton; educational media for Facing History and Ourselves and the Ackerman Institute for the Family; and branded documentaries with Small Angst Films for the MIT Media Lab, IDEO, and Food+Future. She has also created promotional films for artists, dancers, musicians, and chefs.

Jocelyn served as Director of Outreach and Education for one of the Ford Foundation’s first impact grants on Macky Alston’s Family Name, winner of the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award, and has since led numerous outreach and engagement campaigns.

Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, Independent Television Service (ITVS), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Center for Asian American Media, AMDOC, the Ford Foundation, The Roy W. Dean Film Grant, The LEF Foundation, The Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, and The Wellspring Foundation among others.

Jocelyn is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, Film Fatales, and The D-Word. She is grateful to work in a collaborative field alongside artists who inspire her, and credits her family, friends, and dance with keeping her joyful, focused, and optimistic.