About Tomoo I.

We are a Tokyo based production house over the decades and have been providing a crew, fixer/translator, editing, equipment and SNG operation for international broadcasters as well as corporate clients.

About Kosuke A.

Born in Kyoto, Japan. The experience of living in the U.S.A. as a young child has always kept me from dreaming of another culture and world outside of Japan. Studied Spanish as a major at the University of Kansai Gaidai, lived in Barcelona and travelled to Mexico and Brazil. Lived in Sao Paulo Brazil since 2009, and also in Salvador. Starting my career as a photographer in Sao Paulo with the collective group company CIA DE FOTO. Since then growing my work with the field in photography and videography with advertising, commercial, short documentaries and art expression.

About Hikaru T.

Hikaru is a self-shooting Director/Editor based in London and Osaka working in broadcast, viral and independent documentaries as well as branded content, producing long and short format films for BBC, NHK, the Guardian, Tate gallery, and international brands such as Casio, Sony, Dove and Yamaha. Currently producing and directing a feature length documentary 'Lawyers' about the first openly gay couple who started their own law firm in Japan. The film is supported by BBC and NHK (Japanese public broadcaster) and have won the Best Pitch award at the 2014 Tokyo Docs forum. Also initiated and co-directed an award winning film 'Love Hotel' (2014, UK/France/Japan) about a love hotel in Osaka for BBC4 Storyville/France 2, which premiered at Hot Docs International Film Festival 2014, receiving warm reception from both critics and audience.

About Hotaka M.

I'm a filmmaker/photographer based in Osaka, Japan. I speak both Japanese and English. TV/media: PBS, CNBC, Euronews,Time Warner Sports,WDR (Germany) Corporate: SIEMENS, BASF, DRAGADOS, Hoffmann-La Roche, Shiseido, Takeda Pharmaceutical,Thomson Reuters

About Naoki M.

Freelance photographer and cinematographer in Japan. Creating visual identity or brand story through photograph or story movie for Japanese traditional factory or craftsman. Of course, my clients are not only those historical factories or companies.

About Tsuyoshi I.

Tsuyoshi Ishihara, born in 1978 in Kyoto, Japan. He majored in economics at Konan University, graduating with a BA. In 2006, he received a diploma in Film Production from the Vancouver Film School, Canada. Since graduating, he began his career as a videographer and currently works for art and culture documentary as well as a corporate video as a Director of Photography. He also exerts for documentary making in the video production department of Mikumo Co., Ltd.

About Mile N.

Filmmaker. Head of Nagaoka Motion Pictures and Ubusuna Project. Born in Yotsukaido, Chiba, 1979. Lived in Tokyo, working freelance doing camera, lights and production design for independent film productions, apprenticed for a traditional paper craft artisan, worked as art director for an NPO, established and operated a shared housing space in Tokyo, worked as a creative director for ecological video company Green TV Japan, and more.. Moved to Kamiyama, Tokushima prefecture in 2010. Established "Nagaoka Motion Pictures”. Currently based in Shikoku and active all over Japan making documentaries and advertisement videos. Education 1998 Left before completion: Tokyo Polytechnic University Department of Photography 1999 – 2002 Completed Elementary Course, Advanced Course, and Graduate Course at Film School of Tokyo. 2006 Graduated CG Program at Digital Hollywood, Tokyo. Documentary Productions 2001/9 Camera operator for Aoyama Shinji’s “So as Not to Say Everything about Her Already

About David G.

I am a lecturer at a foreign language university and I have been a resident of Osaka, Japan for 16 years. I have been livestreaming for the past 2 1/2 years and I am currently working on several 360 videos for a promotional campaign with Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, for his new smartphone, the Essential.

About Terushi S.

I'm a freelance self-shooting producer based in Kyoto, Japan. I have been very lucky involved with various projects including commercial, journalistic, and factual content both internationally and domestically. I usually work as a one-man band for much of my career and have experience as an editorial assistant at a Newspaper in Japan. As such gave me opportunities to explore various aspects of filmmaking, I am able to act any roles when it comes to production. I am fundamentally interested in and passionate about factual content. If you have any projects along with this line, or even if it is commercial projects, feel free to let me know. Let's make it happen.

About Utako Y.

Utako brings 10 years of LA and 6 years of Tokyo international commercial production experience to team. Her cheerful smile, uplifting attitude, and steady professionalism overcome obstacles and light up rooms everywhere she works.

About FRED M.

I'm a dedicated, motivated and reactive videographer based in Japan. This means I can work all over the country, or eventually in neighborhood countries. I can work as a "one man band" or as part of a team. Lately I've been shooting mostly corporate, documentary and news. I can deliver B-ROLL, Interviews and even edit and/or post-produce your video, depending of your budget/needs. I speak fluent English, French and enough Japanese to work in total autonomy. Feel free to contact me.

About Satomi O.

Freelance video director and producer. I worked for a production agency, and made TV and cable TV programs, mainly news and documentaries. Corporate videos, and town/city promotional videos as well. Also, when I worked for a web channel company, they sent me around the world to shoot at international conferences on the environment. I got very interested and now I try to make videos for clients who would like to tell the stories of forests and mountains, rivers, and oceans mostly.

About David C.

Journalist in Japan. I'm able to provide live news hits on topics related to breaking news in Japan and frequently have done so for the BBC, ABC, NHK, and other major international outlets. With a background of experience working with international media outlets such as VICE News and Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, I have the technical skill and networks here in Japan to produce documentary video packages from anywhere in Japan and the surrounding area. I speak fluent Japanese and am ready to work whenever the news breaks.

About Irene H.

Irene Herrera, PhD(c) is a roving Cuban-Venezuelan documentary filmmaker. Among her non-fiction works are Kodo wa Awaseba (Gran Prix Expo Aichi Film Fest); Gaijin no Honne (2004); You Can Call Me Nikkie (2008); Women in Refugee: Stories from a Border (2009); Crossing Hispaniola (2010); Spirits to Enlightenment (2012-HotDocs) and Cracked Foundations a 28-min. documentary broadcasted on NHK World. Irene has also been an active producer and director for the Lebanon and Japan chapters of the Global Lives Project. In 2008 she was a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and in 2009 a Resident Professional at the Knight Center for International Media. Her journalistic work has been published by The Japan Times, AFP, Al Jazeera Plus, CNNE, Globovision, MSNBC.com, Discovery Digital, NHK World, LinkTV, Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS Newshour. She has traveled to over 60 countries and gets by in 5 languages. For published content: https://ireneherrera.contently.com

About Stephen R.

I am a shooter/reporter with a complete mobile news kit, based in central Tokyo. Here are links to two recent Japan-based stories that I completed: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/10/01/world/asia/100000002466550/losing-hope-in-fukushima.html http://www.usjinnovate.org/mori-seiki-mills-against-the-grain-to-establish-rd-and-manufacturing-in-california-by-steve-ross/ On July 26, I received the first place "gold" award in the 2013 Stanford University U.S.- Asia Innovation Center Awards Program "Untold Story in Innovation" journalism competition. I am a general assignment reporter interested in covering any story in Japan. Willing to travel in Asia as well. Trends and new technology stories feature prominently in Japan, as does the ongoing Fukushima crisis.

About Luis P.

Luis Patron is a Japan-based TV and video producer, director, director of photography and editor. Luis and his team at Patron Productions GK work for clients like Discovery, Olympic Channel, CNN Digital, NHK (Japan), Canal+, Television Francaise 1, Paris Metropol TV, VPRO (The Netherlands), Swiss TV, Wall Street Journal Live, and Al Jazeera. He also works on branded content, commercial and corporate productions for ANA, Nissan, Honda, Japanese Football League, and Nike. He can work in English, Spanish, French and Japanese languages.

About Ian A.

Born in America, Ian Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK, in 2005. His first feature documentary, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006), received the Prix du Canton Vaud prize at the 2006 Visions du Reél International Documentary Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Ian’s two feature documentaries about children living in areas of Fukushima contaminated by the 2011 nuclear meltdown, ‘In the Grey Zone‘ (2012) and ‘A2-B-C‘ (2013), have been screened at festivals around the world where they have also received multiple awards. The World Premier of ‘-1287‘ (2014), Ian’s latest documentary, took place in the 2014 Raindance Film Festival in London. Ian has lived in Japan for a total of 12 years and lives in Tokyo. He is currently in production for two feature documentaries, one about a little told niche in the Japanese sex industry and the other the third installment in his series about Fukushima.

About Steve R.

Film Kaibutsu (Monster)! Camera Operator / Director Presently directing the feature film 'The Pilot Runner Game' for Pacific Empire Studios of Vancouver. But available for free lance work if the price is right ;) 1998 - Present: Lead actor for Fuji TV's 'Unbelievable'. Airs every Thursday prime time.

About Michael P.

Michael Penn is a freelance video and print journalist, president of the Shingetsu News Agency in Tokyo, Japan, and author of the academic book "Japan and the War on Terror" from I. B. Tauris publishers in the UK. Penn is a native Californian who has lived in Japan since 1997.

About Saw L.

I used to work as video journalist in Democratic Voice of Burma for 7 years. And I am working as a fixer and reporter for a lots of International Media such as The New York Times, CCTV, AJ,CNA and France 24 in Myanmar. And me and my friend are running the news agency named Eyes on Burma. We mainly cover about Myanmar.