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Cristina Khuly is Creative Director of Rogues Harbor Studios (RHS), which she co-founded in 2005 with Douglas Eger. RHS integrates content, businesses and individuals to build an educated and politically savvy consumer community around innovative solutions to the world's most complex challenges.

An award-winning director and sculptor, Khuly is overseeing RHS development of projects that aim to entertain and educate, spanning feature and documentary film as well as episodic programming on issues as diverse as environmental concerns and human rights.

Her directorial debut, Shoot Down, was RHS's first release and Winner of the 2007 Best Documentary prize at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival. The documentary is the first feature-length film to tell the story of one of the most pivotal events in US-Cuba relations, the 1996 shoot down of two U.S. civilian aircraft by Cuban fighter jets

Khuly first explored film as a medium in 2004 with a short film on the Cuban sculptor Enrique Gay García which is being prepared for display at the Frost Museum in Miami.

Khuly was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island and received her BFA in Sculpture from the Florida International University in Miami in 1994. From 1989 through 1999 Ms. Khuly worked as a model and commercial actress. Represented by agencies in Manhattan, Paris and Japan, Ms. Khuly traveled extensively and worked for such magazines as Vogue, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazzar, New Woman, Brides, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour and was featured in fashion campaigns such as ESPRIT, Valentino, Lilly Pulitzer and Benetton. Ms. Khuly has worked on television commercials for, Meji ice-cream, Kirin beer, Honda's Vita and Clinique.

Since 1997 Khuly has been working as an artist in such media as sculpture, painting, industrial design, graphic design and film. Recent awards include an Award in Sculpture from the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, Pennsylvania, the New York Foundation for the Arts' Felissimo Design Award and the Miami Beach Art in Public Places "Electrowave Shuttle" Competition winner. She has exhibited her sculptures in many galleries and museums including the Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown, NY; the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, PA; the Carnegie Mellon University's Hewlett Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, and the Florida State University's Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, Florida. In 2002 Khuly completed a public commission, Flight, in Downtown Miami, Florida.

Ms. Khuly is a passionate environmentalist and in partnership with Eger preserved the 6,800 Lundy Estate in Upstate New York and continues to develop land conservation projects. In 2006, Khuly and Eger and created Activist Films in partnership with Amnesty International to develop and promote films with a human rights message.

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