Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist. She is
a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in
International Journalism, Otis College of Art and Design's LA Artist
Residency and an Emerging Curator's Fellowship.Acquaro has been
nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary.
Her films have garnered international film festival awards and shown
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 cover
stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine 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 and
earned her MFA at Maine Media College. Acquaro's work is represented
by Women Make Movies.Emmy Award for Best Documentary
a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in
International Journalism, Otis College of Art and Design's LA Artist
Residency and an Emerging Curator's Fellowship.Acquaro has been
nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary.
Her films have garnered international film festival awards and shown
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 cover
stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine 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 and
earned her MFA at Maine Media College. Acquaro's work is represented
by Women Make Movies.Emmy Award for Best Documentary
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