Kimberlee Acquaro

Director Kimberlee Acquaro is a filmmaker and photojournalist work has appeared in "New York Times Magazine", "Washington Post Magazine,", "Time Magazine", "US News & World Report", "Mother Jones" and many international publications. Acquaro’s work has also been featured on CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show", "Voices of America" and BBC/PRI’s "The World". She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism for her work documenting Rwandan women’s emerging rights and roles in the country’s reconciliation and reconstruction. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York, NY, Santa Barbara, CA and Washington DC and are currently on display through the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/exhibit/online/kimberlee. God Sleeps in Rwanda is her first documentary film. A new mother, Acquaro lives in Venice, CA with her husband and son.

Bringing It All Back Home
A Sheffield Film Coop Production
Directed by Chrissie Stansfield, 1987, 48 min., Color
This fascinating documentary analyzes how the patterns of international capital investment and the exploitation of Third World women workers in free t...

God Sleeps in Rwanda
A film by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, Narrated by Rosario Dawson, 2004, 28 min., Color
** Emmy Winner for Best Documentary and Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short!** ...