Jocelyn is an award-winning filmmaker with over twenty-five years of experience creating character driven arts and social issue documentaries. Jocelyn is best known for producing the Oscar-nominated film MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY (part of Laura Poitras’ post 9/11 trilogy), and for directing the Emmy-Award nominated film THE FLUTE PLAYER about Arn Chorn Pond, a musician who survived the Cambodian genocide and became an international human rights advocate. (Winner -Cine Golden Eagle, Winner - Best First Film at SxSW, P.O.V. broadcast). Her latest project (scheduled to premiere in 2024) is a short film centered around the personal journeys of figure skaters competing at the Gay Games in Paris, France. This film, co-directed and produced with Marlo Poras, explores the power of inclusivity and authentic creative expression in figure skating.

Jocelyn’s social issue films often challenge the status quo. She produced FURUSATO, a cautionary tale about nuclear disasters which focused on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The film screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, won a Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, and was distributed theatrically in Europe. Jocelyn also produced SUN KISSED, a film that follows a Navajo family in their quest for answers about why so many children in their community become critically ill when they are exposed to sunlight. As director of CATCHING BABIES, Jocelyn followed the day-to-day lives of American lay-midwives who find creative ways to keep non-medicalized birthing options available in the face of mounting legal pressures.

At Hampshire College Jocelyn was mentored by seminal experimental video artists Joan Braderman and Sherry Millner and she produced a documentary photo portfolio centered around women’s manual labor in India, China, and Japan under the direction of Carrie Mae Weems. Jocelyn credits these powerful women with helping her find the fortitude needed to enter the documentary field. Upon graduation she worked for cinema verite master Albert Maysles on numerous projects at Maysles Films, in New York City. She credits Albert with teaching her that sensitivity is an asset.

A lover of beauty and the arts, Jocelyn has also worked to showcase cutting edge performers. As Associate Producer on the WNET-NY/GREAT PERFORMANCES series she worked on modern dance programs including TWO BY DOVE, choreographed by Ulysses Dove / performed by Alvin Ailey and Royal Swedish Ballet and GRIOT NEW YORK, choreographed by Garth Fagan. Her credits also include working on a film about ballet dancer Jacques d'Amboise, and assisting on the PBS eight-part series, DANCE AROUND THE WORLD.

Jocelyn’s client work includes being commissioned to direct a short film about the night of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most successful NY Senatorial Race fundraiser (an Art Auction in NYC), producing educational projects for Facing History and Ourselves and the Ackerman Institute, directing short branding docs with Small Angst Films for the MIT Media Lab, IDEO and FOOD+FUTURE, and promotional videos for artists, dancers, musicians and chefs. She was Director of Outreach and Education for one of the FORD FOUNDATION’s first impact grants on Macky Alston’s film, FAMILY NAME (Winner of the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award) and she is proud to have shepherded numerous projects since then through vital outreach and education campaigns.

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

Jocelyn is grateful to be working in a collaborative and creative field, with people who inspire her. She credits her family, her friends, and dance with keeping her joyful, focused and optimistic.

Member of The Documentary Producers Alliance, Film Fatales, The D-Word