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Director, Kimberlee Acquaro is an filmmaker and
photojournalist who's 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, Voices of America and BBC/PRI's The
World. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International
Journalism for her
work documenting Rwandan women's emerging rights and roles in the
country's reconciliation and reconstruction. Her photographs have
been exhibited in New York, NY, Santa Barbara, CA and Washington,
D.C. and are currently on display through the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. God Sleeps In Rwanda is her first
documentary film. A new mother, Acquaro lives in Venice, CA with
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Director, Stacy Sherman holds a Bachelor's
Degree from UCLA in International Relations and a Master's Degree
from USC in Journalism. She has written screenplays for 20th
Century Fox and Tri-Star Pictures and is currently writing a
screenplay for Imagine Entertainment & Warner Bros. Ms. Sherman
has also co-written, co-produced and co-directed,
Waitress, a documentary short about Kaye Coleman, a Los
Angeles waitress who died this year, but touched hundreds of lives
with her humanity and spirit. She lives in Los Angeles with her
husband and two children. |
Editor, Craig
Tanner is a graduate from the Air Force Academy and served
in the Air Force for 8 years as a film editor for the Armed Forces.
After his military career he went on to work as an editor on
feature films including The Family Stone (associate editor
2005), The Passion of the Christ (assistant editor 2004),
The Young Black Stallion (first assistant editor 2003),
Shattered Glass (associate editor 2003), We Were
Soldiers (assistant editor 2002), Crocodile Dundee in Los
Angeles (assistant editor 2001). He is currently working on
Breach with director Billy Ray. Tanner lives in Mexico with his
wife, Gina, and sons Chili and Texas but continues to work on
features and is a creative force in the industry. Narrator, Rosario
Dawson has starred in numerous films with today's most
acclaimed actors and directors most recently as "Mimi Valdez" in
the upcoming adaptation of the famed Broadway play Rent.
Since her debut in Larry Clark's Kids she has appeared in
Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller's Sin City; Oliver Stone's
Alexander opposite Collin Farrell; Director Billy Ray's
critically acclaimed Shattered Glass; Spike Lee's films
25th Hour and He Got Game; Men In Black
2 with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; the indie film This
Girl's Life; Ethan Hawk's Chelsea Walls and Ed Burns'
Sidewalks of New York among others. Dawson produced
Bliss Virus, a short film by director Talia Lugacy and
hopes to produce Lugacy's first feature. Born and raised in New
York, Rosario continues to make her home there. Translator, Norah
Bagarinka is a genocide survivor and mother. As an
untiring advocate for women she has worked extensively for their
aid, education and rights. She most recently directed a program
with the International Rescue Committee aiding women victims of
violence and genocide sexual survivors and training judges in the
handling of women's cases in the genocide trials in Rwanda. Norah
came to the U.S. to travel with the film and recently received
asylum here. She is currently attending nursing school in Columbus,
OH and working with the filmmakers to bring her three sons to the
U.S. to live with her. |
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