Biography
Kate Trumbull-LaValle is a Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker with a passion for telling stories about rebellious women, motherhood, labor, immigration, art, and the hybridity of identity. Her critically acclaimed debut feature documentary, Ovarian Psycos (2016), about a fierce, unapologetic Latinx bicycle collective formed on Eastside Los Angeles in the face of gendered violence, had its world premiere at SXSW and was nationally broadcast on PBS' Independent Lens in 2017.
In 2018 Kate directed two one-hour broadcast films for public television: Artist And Mother (Artbound/KCET) and City Rising (KCET). Both films were nominated for LA Area Emmy's, and both films won LA Press Awards. In 2019 Kate was a co-producer for the groundbreaking 5-part PBS history series, Asian Americans (2020), for which she received a Peabody Award.
Kate's work has been supported by California Humanities, ITVS Open Call, ITVS Diversity Development Fund, Pacific Pioneer Fund, Women in Film, Sundance Institute, Working Films, the International Documentary Association, Studio IX, and Women Make Movies. She has screened her work at over fifty festivals internationally including SXSW, Hot Docs, the New York Human Rights Film Festival, Ambulante, MASS MoCA, Milano Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival to name a few.
In addition to directing and producing long-form films, Kate also directs social issue nonfiction broadcast and digital content for nonprofits and social issue campaigns. She teaches documentary film at California State University, Long Beach, 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. Kate is a proud member of the IDA and Film Fatales.
