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{{Short description|American filmmaker and photojournalist}}
'''Kimberlee Acquaro''' is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning [[filmmaker]], [[photojournalist]].<ref>http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kimberlee/</ref> and a Recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism.
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'''Kimberlee Acquaro''' is an American [[filmmaker]] and [[photojournalist]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kimberlee/ |title=Rwanda: Photo Essay by Kimberlee Acquaro |access-date=2010-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323061729/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kimberlee/ |archive-date=2010-03-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Acquaro 's work covers human and civil rights, racial and gender justice. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, Otis College of Art and Design's LA Artist Residency and an Emerging Curator's Fellowship.


Her documentary [[God Sleeps in Rwanda]] was nominated for an Oscar and won an Emmy for Best Documentary.. Her documentary 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 shown at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. And the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. Acquaro’s photojournalism has appeared in ''The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, 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 in DC for her work in Rwanda. She 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.
Her work has garnered international film festival awards and been featured on HBO, Cinemax, CNN, CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show", "The Voice of America," BBC/PRI's "The World"; shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The California African American Museum, Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., The Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, Advocate Gochis Gallery in Los Ángeles and the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. Acquaro's journalism has appeared as cover stories in The New York Times Magazine, in The Washington Post Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Interview, Mother Jones, Art News 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 in Washington DC for her work in Rwanda. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film for her work documenting race in America through the eyes of African-Americans over the age of 100 in I'll Rise.
Acquaro's practice has expanded to include visual art as collective action, public space art and socially engaged exhibitions on racism, bias and transgender rights.


Acquaro began her career as a intern for photographer Mary Ellen Mark and assistant to Eddie Adams. She then worked as Assistant to the Director of Photography at LIFE Magazine then a Photography Editor at TIME Magazine and at U,S.News &World Report. She joined the staff at The Eddie Adams Workshop; has been a jurist at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France; a jurist for The International Documentary Association and for the Emmy Awards. She studied photography at Maine Media College. Her work is represented by Women Make Movies.
Acquaro began her career as an intern for photographer Mary Ellen Mark and assistant to Eddie Adams. She worked as assistant to the director of photography at ''Life'' magazine then a photography editor at ''Time'' magazine and at ''U.S. News & World Report''. She joined the staff at The Eddie Adams Workshop; has been a jurist at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France; a jurist for The International Documentary Association and for the Emmy Awards. She studied photography and earned her MFA at [[Maine Media College]]. Acquaro's work is represented by Women Make Movies.


==Awards==
==Awards==
Emmy Award for Best Documentary<ref name="emmyonline">http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_pdf/news_28th_winners_rev_ii.pdf</ref>
Emmy Award for Best Documentary<ref name="emmyonline">{{Cite web |url=http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_pdf/news_28th_winners_rev_ii.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922012822/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_pdf/news_28th_winners_rev_ii.pdf |archive-date=2013-09-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* International Reporting Project Fellow<ref>http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/fellows-editors/</ref>
* International Reporting Project Fellow<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/fellows-editors/ | title=Fellows Editors Archives }}</ref>
* 2001 Pew Fellowship in International Journalism<ref>http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm639.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=35198</ref>
* 2001 Pew Fellowship in International Journalism<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm639.shtml | title=Kimberlee Acquaro }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=35198|title = Archive}}</ref>
*[[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2010|2010 Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>http://www.gf.org/fellows/16716-kimberlee-acquaro</ref>
*[[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2010|2010 Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16716-kimberlee-acquaro |title=Kimberlee Acquaro - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2010-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421115950/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16716-kimberlee-acquaro |archive-date=2010-04-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*SilverDocs Jury Award and Audience Award<ref name="meteorfilms">http://www.meteorfilms.org/Reviews/Awards%20and%20Honors%20PDF/SILVERDOCS%20award.pdf</ref>
*SilverDocs Jury Award and Audience Award<ref name="meteorfilms">{{cite web|url=http://www.meteorfilms.org/Reviews/Awards%20and%20Honors%20PDF/SILVERDOCS%20award.pdf |access-date=7 April 2023|website=meteorfilms.org
|title=AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival Announces Festival Winners}}</ref>
*Aspen ShortsFest Audience Award<ref name="meteorfilms" />
*Aspen ShortsFest Audience Award<ref name="meteorfilms" />
*Palm Springs ShortsFest Audience Award<ref>http://www.psfilmfest.org/archive/shortfestawards.aspx</ref>
*Palm Springs ShortsFest Audience Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psfilmfest.org/archive/shortfestawards.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-11-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309013745/http://www.psfilmfest.org/archive/shortfestawards.aspx |archivedate=2010-03-09 }}</ref>
*Urban Vibe Film Festival - Best Documentary Short<ref>http://www.blackfilm.com/20060623/features/urbanworld.shtml</ref>
*Urban Vibe Film Festival - Best Documentary Short<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackfilm.com/20060623/features/urbanworld.shtml|title=June 2006 &#124; blackfilm.com &#124; THE 10th URBANWORLD VIBE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2006 WINNERS|website=www.blackfilm.com|accessdate=7 April 2023}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
* ''100 Years'' (2010)<ref>http://100yearsproject.org/Filmmakers.html</ref>
* ''100 Years'' (2010)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://100yearsproject.org/Filmmakers.html |title=Filmmakers |access-date=2010-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017024215/http://100yearsproject.org/Filmmakers.html |archive-date=2010-10-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''MissRepresentation''
*''[[Miss Representation|MissRepresentation]]''
* ''[[God Sleeps in Rwanda]]'' (2005)<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2042880/</ref>
* ''[[God Sleeps in Rwanda]]'' (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2042880/|title=Kimberlee Acquaro|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200602/20060217_acquaro.html "Kimberlee Acquaro"], ''Tavis Smiley'', February 17, 2006
*[https://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200602/20060217_acquaro.html "Kimberlee Acquaro"], ''Tavis Smiley'', February 17, 2006
*[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/14/i_if.01.html "Women of Rwanda Take Charge; A Day in the Life of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf"], ''Inside Africa'', CNN, October 14, 2006
*[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/14/i_if.01.html "Women of Rwanda Take Charge; A Day in the Life of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf"], ''Inside Africa'', CNN, October 14, 2006
*[http://www.satyamag.com/jun06/iyer_film.html ''Satya''], June/July 2006
*[http://www.satyamag.com/jun06/iyer_film.html ''Satya''], June/July 2006
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Kimberlee Acquaro
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • Photojournalist

Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist.[1] Acquaro 's work covers human and civil rights, racial and gender justice. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, Otis College of Art and Design's LA Artist Residency and an Emerging Curator's Fellowship.

Her work has garnered international film festival awards and been featured on HBO, Cinemax, CNN, CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show", "The Voice of America," BBC/PRI's "The World"; shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The California African American Museum, Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., The Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, Advocate Gochis Gallery in Los Ángeles and the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. Acquaro's journalism has appeared as cover stories in The New York Times Magazine, in The Washington Post Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Interview, Mother Jones, Art News 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 in Washington DC for her work in Rwanda. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film for her work documenting race in America through the eyes of African-Americans over the age of 100 in I'll Rise. Acquaro's practice has expanded to include visual art as collective action, public space art and socially engaged exhibitions on racism, bias and transgender rights.

Acquaro began her career as an intern for photographer Mary Ellen Mark and assistant to Eddie Adams. She worked as assistant to the director of photography at Life magazine then a photography editor at Time magazine and at U.S. News & World Report. She joined the staff at The Eddie Adams Workshop; has been a jurist at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France; a jurist for The International Documentary Association and for the Emmy Awards. She studied photography and earned her MFA at Maine Media College. Acquaro's work is represented by Women Make Movies.

Awards

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Emmy Award for Best Documentary[2]

  • International Reporting Project Fellow[3]
  • 2001 Pew Fellowship in International Journalism[4][5]
  • 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
  • SilverDocs Jury Award and Audience Award[7]
  • Aspen ShortsFest Audience Award[7]
  • Palm Springs ShortsFest Audience Award[8]
  • Urban Vibe Film Festival - Best Documentary Short[9]

Filmography

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Works

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  • "Out of Madness, A Matriarchy", Mother Jones, January/February 2003
  • "The Girls Next Door" Sex Slaves on Main Street The New York Times Magazine January 2004

References

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  1. ^ "Rwanda: Photo Essay by Kimberlee Acquaro". Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Fellows Editors Archives".
  4. ^ "Kimberlee Acquaro".
  5. ^ "Archive".
  6. ^ "Kimberlee Acquaro - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  7. ^ a b "AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival Announces Festival Winners" (PDF). meteorfilms.org. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 9, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "June 2006 | blackfilm.com | THE 10th URBANWORLD VIBE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2006 WINNERS". www.blackfilm.com. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  10. ^ "Filmmakers". Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  11. ^ "Kimberlee Acquaro". IMDb.
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