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Kimberlee Acquaro
Affiliation during program: Freelance Photo
Country Focus: Rwanda

Kimberlee Acquaro
Program: Fall 2001
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Kimberlee Acquaro is a filmmaker and photojournalist based in Venice, California whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, TIME Magazine, US New & World Report, Mother Jones and many international publications. Acquaro's work has also been featured on CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show," Voice of America and BBC/PRI's "The World." She was awarded an IRP Fellowship in International Journalism and documented Rwandan women's emerging rights and roles in the country's reconciliation and reconstruction. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York, Santa Barbara and Washington, D.C. and have been displayed through the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her first documentary film, "God Sleeps in Rwanda," was named an Academy Award finalist for Best Documentary Short.

 

 

 

Stories
· Out of Madness, A Matriarchy
· Rwandan Women
· "The World" Interviews Kimberlee Acquaro
· U.S. Holocaust Museum Displays Kimberlee Acquaro's Photographs

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