Kimberlee Acquaro

Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist.[1] She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism.

Acquaro has been nominated for an Academy Award and 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"; shown at The Museum of Modern Art 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 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 in Washington 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.

Acquaro began her career as an 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.