Michele d'Acosta

Diversity empowerment group, The TV Collective, recognized Michele D'Acosta as one of the 50 most influential People of Color in British Television. Michele is best known as producer of the award-winning documentary Biggie & Tupac, which has been acknowledged as one of the 50 most important documentary films of the past 25 years. She was co-executive producer of the music documentary No Distance Left to Run, which was nominated for Best Long Form Music Video for the 53rd Grammy Awards. She has worked on staff as a producer at HBO, BBC, and Channel 4 (UK). Michele studied Russian, German, and International Relations at the University of West London. She did her postgraduate work at UCLA, in the screenwriting program. She won Best Musical screenplay for The Prince of Hip Hop. As director, editor, and animator, her short film Cooking The Earth - a surreal vision of climate change - won Best Animation at the Moondance International festival. She has twice been nominated for the UK Film Council's Breakthrough Brits Awards. She is working on a slate of diversity themed Film/TV projects including a documentary feature about reparations inspired by the feature film Selma by Ava DuVernay.