Bo Kovitz

Background

About Bo Kovitz

Bo Kovitz is an independent documentary filmmaker, producer and journalist. She has a passion for untold histories and social justice stories, and has brought that sensibility to a variety of documentary projects from feature films to high-profile docu-series. She produced Luminant Media's critically-acclaimed Turning Point: The Vietnam War, Trilogy Films' John Lewis: Good Trouble, and Legacy, a 10-part Hulu docu-series that chronicles the family succession saga behind the storied Los Angeles Lakers franchise. Bo previously worked in print and investigative journalism, starting as a city beat reporter in Berkeley. In 2019, she completed her masters at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was the Marlon T. Riggs Fellow in documentary film and was mentored by award-winning documentarian Dawn Porter. Bo is first-generation Thai-American on her mom’s side, and a proud member of A-Doc, Asian-American Journalists Association, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Women of Color Unite.