Laela Kilbourn

Director of photography Laela Kilbourn has accumulated documentary feature credits including Best Cinematography award winner "Swim Team", and seven Sundance competition premieres, such as 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 narrative work includes the feature "Death of a Fool", the comedy "Park Slope Moms", and award-winning shorts "June Weddings" and "Bar Talk". She was profiled in the ICG Magazine feature "Generation Next" and in Indiewire's "8 More Female Cinematographers You Should Know About". She has worked on projects for HBO, FX, NBC, PBS, Netflix, Hulu, Epix, AMC, A&E, Amazon, TNT, TBS, Nick Jr., NickMom, ESPN, History, MTV, VH1, WeTV, Trio, TruTV, and TVOne. A member of the International Cinematographers Guild, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NYWIFT, and ICFC, she has served as a juror for the Brooklyn International Film Festival, as a panelist on cinematography at Canon Creative Studio and DOCNYCPRO, and as a guest speaker at The New School. She has a degree in social anthropology from Harvard University.