Filmmaker Erika Cohn talks about 'Belly of the Beast,' her film that exposes modern-day eugenics in California's prisons

The year 2010 was momentous for Erika Cohn, the documentary filmmaker who was born and raised in Salt Lake City — because it’s when two different movies she made had their origins.

She had started work on “In Football We Trust,” the documentary she co-directed about young men in Utah’s Pacific Islander community who saw playing football as a way to improve their lives. The movie premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to play on PBS.

The other took longer to come together, but now it’s here: “Belly of the Beast,” an exposé of forced sterilizations in California’s biggest women’s prison — and a profile of the activists who have fought to change the laws that allowed the practice to continue.

Read about Cohn’s new movie here, at sltrib.com.