Laela Kilbourn
- Cinematographer
Director of photography Laela Kilbourn has accumulated feature credits including Best Cinematography award winner "Swim Team", and eight Sundance documentary premieres, such as Apple Original Films' "Girls State"; the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award winner "This Is Home: A Refugee Story"; Peabody Award winner "How to Dance in Ohio"; and Emmy-nominated "Word Wars". Her award-winning narrative work includes "The Duke and Duchess of Queens", "Death of a Fool", "Crabs in a Barrel", "Park Slope Moms", and "June Weddings". A member of the International Cinematographers Guild, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York Women in Film & Television, and the International Collective of Female+ Cinematographers, she has served as a juror for the Brooklyn International Film Festival, as a panelist on cinematography at Canon Creative Studio and DOC NYC PRO, and as a guest speaker at The New School. She has a degree in social anthropology from Harvard University.