God Sleeps in Rwanda

Kimberlee Acquaro

Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist who, over her career, has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won an Emmy for Best Documentary. Her film GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA garnered international awards and was featured on HBO. Her work has also been featured on CNN, CBS, NPR, “The Tavis Smiley Show”, “The Voice of America,” BBC/PRI’s “The World” and has been shown in various museums accross the United States including MOMA and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Acquaro’s journalism work has appeared as The New York Times Magazine cover stories as well as in The Washington Post Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Interview, Mother Jones and many international publications. She was awarded a prestigious Pew Fellowship in International Journalism and a Residency at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies for her work in Rwanda. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on race in America through the eyes of African-Americans over the age of 100 in I'LL RISE. Acquaro now lives with her family in Venice, California. (1/20)

Stacy Sherman

Stacy Sherman, native of Los Angeles, is an award winning writer/director. Sherman Co-Wrote, Co-Produced and Co-Directed the documentary God Sleeps In Rwanda, which chronicles the story of five survivors, whose lives were irrevocably altered, 10 years after the Rwandan genocide. Sold to HBO, God Sleeps in Rwanda was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy. As a writer, Sherman has sold screenplays to Twentieth Century Fox, Tri-Star Entertainment & Warner Bros. She co-wrote the screenplay, One for the Money, based on the best-selling book series by Janet Evanovich. The feature film, which stars Katherine Heigl, released by LakeShore Entertainment & Lionsgate, opens this month. (8/14)

Rosario Dawson

As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street. At the age of 15, she was subsequently discovered on her front porch step by photographer Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, where Korine lauded her as being perfect for a part he had written in his screenplay that would become the controversial 1995 film Kids. She went on to star in varied roles, ranging from independent films to big budget blockbusters including RENT, HE GOT GAME and MEN IN BLACK II.

In 2009, Dawson performed in THE PEOPLE SPEAK, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

In 2009, Dawson also voiced the character of Velvet Von Black in Rob Zombie's animated feature, THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO. For the Kasabian album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, she is featured singing on the track "West Ryder Silver Bullet".

In 2010, she starred in the movies PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF, as Persephone, and UNSTOPPABLE, as railway yardmaster Connie. In 2013, she played Apple's mother in the independent film GIMME SHELTER. (8/14)