Bo Hemtanonth-Kovitz is an independent filmmaker, creative producer, writer and journalist based in Los Angeles. Her credits span feature documentaries, shorts and high-profile docu-series, with experience directing, story-producing, field-producing and doing camerawork. Her recent work is featured in Trilogy Films' critically acclaimed John Lewis: Good Trouble, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See, and an upcoming 10-part Hulu docu-series from Antoine Fuqua that chronicles the succession saga behind the storied Los Angeles Lakers franchise. Outside of doc, Bo is currently writing and developing her own narrative projects.
Before film, she worked as a journalist and brings much of that training into the film industry. She got her start as a city beat reporter in Berkeley and 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 Dawn Porter. Her thesis film and directorial debut The Desert follows patients, first responders and health care workers after a devastating public hospital closure. It premiered at Mill Valley Film Festival in 2019.
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.