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Jacqui Lofaro

Long Island, New York

Documentary filmmaker; film festival director

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Title/Occupation:  Producer 

Services Provided:  Film Festivals/Marketers 

Gender: Female

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: English, some Italian

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2010 Co-Produced/Directed: “The Last Fix: an Addict’s Passage from Hell to Hope.” 62-minute feature documentary, the third film in a trilogy, tells three stories of drug-ravaged addicts thrown a lifeline out of crime and jail into treatment and recovery.
2008 Co-Produced/Directed: “70 x 7: The Forgiveness Equation” 36-minute documentary tells uncommon and compelling stories that challenge our rock-hard beliefs in revenge, retribution and forgiveness.
2003 Co-Produced/Directed: “The Empty Chair: Death Penalty Yes or No.” 42-minute documentary tells four stories of murder victims’ families reliving the crimes and confronting the loss of loved ones. Their instinct
for revenge during trial and the debate for punishment by death climaxes in a search to forgive and heal. Received the 2006 Thurgood Marshall Broadcast Journalism Award.

Biography: Jacqui Lofaro Producer/Director Partner in Justice Productions Producing documentaries on social justice issues Owner of “As the Crow Flies Productions Producing documentaries on environmental issues 2008-Co-Produced/Directed: “70 x 7: The Forgiveness Equation” 36-minutes documentary tells uncommon and compelling stories that challenge our rock-hard beliefs in revenge, retribution and forgiveness. Two sisters lose their parents to brutal murder; their struggle to forgive or condemn rips apart a life-long bond. A father witnesses his daughter’s slaughter in a monumental terrorist attack; his bold and unorthodox connection to the killer’s family becomes his salvation. Can we forgive what he cannot forget? The forgiveness equation tests us all. 2003-Co-Produced/Directed: “The Empty Chair: Death Penalty Yes or No” 42-minute documentary received the 2006 Thurgood Marshall Broadcast Journalism Award. It was selected in 2005 and in 2006 by Amnesty International as the documentary selection for their National ‘Weekend of Faith in Action’ program. It screened in the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival; the Vermont Human Rights International Film Festival; the Taiwan International Film Festival. It aired on the National Cable Television Hallmark Channel. Thousands of audiences in the US, Europe and Asia have screened the film as part of a successful outreach program. Produced environmental documentaries: Robins Island Long Island Pine Barrens Last Lake On Long Island 60-minute feature aired on public television, Channel WLIW 21 Composting: What’s It to You for Group for South Fork The Corrugator an original short film on recycling. Won a Merit Award in the Long Island Film and Television Festival Prior to forming independent documentary companies she wrote and produced a corporate/industry films, TV programs, films-for-hire: Space Odyssey for J.P.Stevens; awarded the Gold Medal from International Film & Television Festival. Healthy Living, a 6-part TV series for Southampton Hospital From Bathysphere to Modern Research Submersibles for New York Zoological Society that screened at Lincoln Center. Jacqui Lofaro . P.O. Box 550 . Bridgehampton, NY 11932 . jacqlo@hamptons.com