Filmmakers

The Filmmakers

Kimberlee Acquaro

Kimberlee Acquaro is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning filmmaker and photojournalist. Her work has screened on HBO, at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Museum of Tolerance in LA, Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights and in many other venues. Her journalism 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, California, Washington, D.C. and Mexico City 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 her husband and two young children.

Perrin Chiles

Perrin Chiles is an Emmy Award-winning producer and founder of In Effect Films, a documentary film company created with the purpose of effecting social change through film. Perrin’s first film, Autism: The Musical, world premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, was bought by HBO and has garnered a variety of worldwide interest, awards and acclaim, including being on the Short List for the 2008 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. In 2008 Chiles won Best Picture for the documentary short “It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over” at the Elevate Film Festival.

Currently, Perrin works as an independent producer and writer in Los Angeles. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Perrin assisted in the fundraising endeavors and business organization of Elevation Partners, a leading media and entertainment leveraged buyout fund with $1.8 billion under management. Before Elevation, Perrin worked at Silver Lake Partners, a premier technology private equity fund with $3.6 billion under management. Additionally, Perrin worked in investment banking for Wachovia Securities’ Technology Investment Banking Group. Perrin Chiles graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics & History in 1999.

Meredith Blake

The chief strategist of Cause & Affect, Meredith Blake is a nationally recognized public interest attorney, advocate and social entrepreneur with twenty years of experience in creating positive social change. Meredith is the Founder & CEO of Cause & Affect, an innovative agency working with influencers to create social change movements. In this role, Meredith works with clients to create deep impact philanthropic initiatives and social action campaigns grounded in research and with an eye toward sustainability. To achieve the greatest possible success, Meredith also bring to bear her experience at the nexus of media and social change: helping to bring visibility to causes, reach the greatest constituency possible and create cross-platform initiatives that enable individuals to learn more and become part of the solution. Prior to launching Cause & Affect, Meredith worked as a top executive at Participant Productions, a film production company founded in 2004 by former EBay president Jeff Skoll to create movies that are consciousness-raising as well as entertaining.

Brian Lazzaro

Brian began directing and shooting music videos in Los Angeles at the age of 24. The second clip he directed, “Portions For Foxes” for indie rock band Rilo Kiley, was nominated for MVPA’s Rock Video Of The Year in 2006. With over 30 videos under his belt, the 28 year-old director also DP’s much of his own video work. His cinematography credits encompass a broad range – from comedy (Candor TV’s “More on America”) to beauty work (Angie Mattson “In Violet”.) In 2008 he won best cinematography for the documentary “It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over” at the Elevate Film Festival.

Lazzaro began studying photography and filmmaking at an early age and worked extensively in Public TV documentaries in Poughkeepsie, New York. Prior to graduating from NYU Film and Television School in 2003, Brian was awarded funding from a Warner Bros Production Grant and his thesis "Navigator," earned him a Grand Prize award at the New Jersey International Film Festival. Currently Brian lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to film commercials and music videos. He recently finished two videos for the band Rooney on Geffen Records and a country video for Jack Ingram.

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