Director, Kimberlee Acquaro is a 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 MuseumGod Sleeps In Rwanda is her first documentary film. A new mother, Acquaro lives in Venice, CA with her husband and son.
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.