Maria Cuomo Cole

Maria Cuomo Cole is a Peabody and Emmy award-winning producer recognized for making a social impact on highly relevant issues with compelling artful storytelling. She has most recently produced US Kids, directed by Kim A. Snyder. The film team partnered on Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane and Newtown, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, also directed by Kim A. Snyder. Filmed over nearly three years, Newtown documents a traumatized community fractured by grief and driven toward a sense of purpose. After broadcast on PBS, the film was theatrically distributed across the country, and later by Netflix International. In 2015, she executive produced The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick, which investigates the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. This Emmy and Peabody Award-winning film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, aired on CNN, and was released on Netflix in 2016. Cuomo Cole worked with the same team as an executive producer of the 2014 Oscar-Nominated, The Invisible War, about the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the U.S. military and served as a catalyst for federal policy reforms. The Invisible War won two Emmy awards and a Peabody. Cuomo Cole's 2010 documentary, Living for 32, about the tragic gun shooting on the Virginia Tech University Campus, was short-listed for an Academy Award, aired on Showtime, and was distributed by BBC Worldwide. The film achieved significant social impact at screenings in numerous festivals and on The National College Campaign to End Gun Violence. She has been married to Kenneth Cole since 1987 and they have three children.