Discover Top Field Producers in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Audio Storyteller
• Sound Mixer
• Drone Operator

I am documentary film camerawomen based in Germany and Japan. I work as freelancer on documentary films for television and cinema since about 19 years. I`v been working for tv channels like: ARTE, 3Sat, WDR, ZDF, ARD, MDR and production companies like: Prounen Film -filming in Europe, US and Asia about architecture, design and artists biographies. Büchner Filmproduktion for "Family Business", Michelberger Filmproduktion for his author films about toured, voodoo healing and Probsteigasse in Cologne. 2Pilots on "Remote-area" and "Warschau-Frankestein", Strandfilm - filming in Slovakia "Gypsies", Focusfilm a film about german artist Vera Lossau, Schneegans and Gemini Film for "199 little heroes". In 2020 me and my partner we set up a video production company with the name: Double Circle Tokyo. We are producing and shooting short documentaries. Since 2020 we work for remote productions which can not come to Japan to shoot.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Field Producer

Our Tokyo based team is comprised of European and American partners servicing internationally-minded companies. Our team members span multiple continents enabling us to create content from all around the world. We have the infrastructure to support Japanese companies including translators and cultural specialists. Our team has produced thousands of online videos in various genres including gaming, documentary, lifestyle, comedy. Our experience stems from growing our own online presence in the form of YouTube channels and social media profiles, spanning a fan-base of over 1,400,000 people. We provided videos for some of the biggest brands such as Coca-Cola, Panasonic, HP, Sony, and Orange. Our experience with online video production means we are always at the cutting edge of video trends. We incorporate these into our work to new and fresh ideas to our client work. We handle all stages of planning, video production, budget allocation, and talent search. We provide the client with a finished product suited to their needs.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Sound Mixer
• Translator
• Field Producer
• Music Composer
• Post-Production Manager

Makiko Segawa Producer/Fixer Japan Fixers & Journalists Network(www.jfjn.jp) Founder and director 07/2012 -Today ● Fixing media's requests and oversea companies' clients’ needs ●News producing work as a local producer, fixer, crew matching for TVs, Radio and magazines ●Researching work for domestic and oversea media clients. ● Managing a network of videographers, journalists and fixers in Japan for oversea and domestic clients. ●Making an in depth investigation for clients' needs ●Writing and editing articles in Japanese The Wall Street Journal Japan News Room Editorial Assistant 10/2009-06/2012 ●Research on the subject of breaking news ●Arranging appointments and managing schedule for correspondents ●Translating/interpreting for correspondents ●Film a short story Sankei Newspaper (産経新聞) News Reporter 04/2006-08/2008 ●Reporting news story on a daily basis about criminal cases, cultural events, social problems at Maebashi City Bureau Office in Gunma Prefecture ●Writing a series of featured stories of classic musicians at a music magazine titled with “Mostly Classic” published by Sankei Newspaper Education Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan 04/2002-03/2006 Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature, Liberal Art Achievements/Media Relation ●Press Tour Senior Specialist for Tokyo Metropolitan Government targeted on oversea media-Olympic Hosting City Story in June 2014 ●Press Event Coordinator for Boris Johnson, a then mayor of London in Oct 2015 at UK Embassy ●JNTO & JTB Foreign Media Press Tour Coordinator in Shikoku in 2017 With a guest of An Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Mireia Belmonte Garcia (Spain) ●Oversea Media Press Tour Organizer, for Ishikawa Prefecture in September 2019 ● BBC World Question-Event Coordinator at Keio University, Tokyo in September 2019 Achievements/Media Production ●Books: 『3.11 噂と真実—誰も書かなかった１年　東日本大震災』（2012年辰巳出版）（” 3.11 Rumors and Truth:Stories Noboday Wrote-East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami” a book published by Tatsumi company in 2012-Writer） 『日本が“世界一”を守り抜く戦略』 Strategies for keeping Japan No.1-Japan 2030 Future Map published in Nov 2019 (Translator and edit)

• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Assistant

With over 10 years of experience in the creative industry, Shabbir Ahmed founded Tokyo Ame Productions in 2017. Our aim is to provide quality video production and photography for the ever growing great foreigner community in Japan as well as native Japanese customers. Tokyo Ame Productions likes to see itself as a bridge between many foreign creative communities, that have been blooming in Japan and help foreigners overcome difficulties in logistics or cultural barriers that exist while trying to produce content in Japan. Our mission is to make video production in Japan go as smoothly as possible without losing any creative flare due to translation or cultural misunderstandings. Furthermore, we aim to expose Japanese clients to a broader multicultural team that can bring more creative and international ideas and infuse them in a way that fits the Japan' s unique media landscape.

• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Corporate Videographer
• Creative Director
• Event Photographer
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fashion Photographer
• Audio Storyteller
• Colorist
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer

Born in 1989, Miwaza is a bilingual Japanese award-winning photographer, videographer, designer, published painter, entrepreneur, and developer with +17yrs experience in Japan and +30 countries. Her mission in life is to pursue creativity in which to share with the world. She started her career first as a freelance photographer/entrepreneur when she was 14 years old and has been expanding her business ever since. She finds joy in connecting with humans through storytelling and the creation of creative content.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Translator
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Podcast Producer
• Content Strategist
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Post-Production Manager
• Colorist
• Senior Editor
• Sound Designer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

My name is Marcio Edagi. I am a Brazilian-Japanese production manager/coordinator, fixer, and field producer based in Tokyo. My credits include commercial work as well as factual pieces for pieces for AJE, BBC and fixing for longer format docs for ZPZ Production/CNN (The Mind of a Chef, Parts Unknown). I hail from Brazil but have been in Japan for over 20 years.

• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Translator
• Production Assistant

I have been working as fixer for 5 years, and managed several project from corporate to documentary films. Available to speak English (Business), Korean(Daily Conversation), Japanese(Native). based in both Osaka and Tokyo, flexible to where your project is.

• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Transcriber
• Translator

I'm a video journalist who has produced digital video and TV reports, documentaries and features for BBC News, Finnish broadcaster Yle and other clients around the world.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer

Richard Atrero de Guzman is a Tokyo based freelance video journalist, producer/photographer, international correspondent for wire news agency. Completed work for New York Times, AJ+, Redfish and CNN's Great Big Story.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

My current rep agency is ACTRS Inc. But I am free to work outside of ACTRS Inc. I have been producing Commercials, Promos, and Documentaries for international clients over 15 years, such as Dupont, IKEA, COKE, Reebok. I have thorough understanding of the production for domestic and international production. I also work very closely with Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, BBC and VICE for documentary projects. LONELEY DEATH received a shiver award at New York Festival (producer) and NORTH KOREAN GHOSTSHIP (producer / director) became one of the most viewed documentaries on Channel News Asia. The recent documentary film MEETING ARIZONA (director) won the best feature doc at Mediterranean Film Festival. 【My Background】 I have lived in Australia for 7 years, since 1998. I have studied filmmaking at KVB institute and Sydney University, then worked for film production companies and TV networks such as SBS and FOXTEL. I also compose sound scape and worked with an actor Jordi Molla for the art installation, presented at Spain’s art festival Observatori.

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Creative Director
• Fixer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Drone Operator
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Post-Production Manager

Sybilla Patrizia is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Tokyo. In her work, she merges her passion for social impact and human stories with her background in fashion to create thought-provoking stories that cross the border between documentary, art and design. Sybilla is currently developing her first feature-length documentary ‘PLASTIC LOVE!’, which deals with Japan’s toxic relationship with plastic and which was featured in HERMÈS’ Social Good Book. In 2022, she shot the cover of the Financial Times’ HTSI Magazine, featuring Japan’s best-selling author Mieko Kawakami and ‘The Dark Side of Manga’, a VICE short doc on child abuse in Japanese manga which won an Emmy in 2023. At Tokyo Docs 2023, ‘The Shape of Blue’ was awarded Best Pitch Award, Sunny Side of the Doc Award, and DocedgeKolkata Award.‘A Bloody Taboo’ about the stigma against menstruation in Japan, was awarded at Tokyo Docs and premiered at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2021.

• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Field Producer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Senior Editor
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Like an idea we have no limits or boundaries, just solutions, tools and amazing people with the desire to create. These are the precursors to something amazing happening. Huxham Creative Studio is a Tokyo based entity streamlining the process of being effortlessly awesome. Who we are exactly and what we do can be a little hard to define, at the root of it all we are specialists, not just in a single field but in many. A full service production house from idea to execution. Masterminds of advertising, creators and curators of film and still imagery projects. But most importantly; we are the movers and shakers that accomplish what others merely talk about. In short – we’re the people you hire to get things done

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Drone Operator
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Music Composer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Encountering unforgettable people and filming their unique stories is key to building a story that viewers would remember. I work as a Producer and Fixer in Tokyo. I have journalism background and have worked with international broadcasters and production companies from around the world for 14 years. Discovering essential characters, finding ways into their lives, and conveying their life experiences through original, compelling visual stories is the passion I share with the teams that I work with.

• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location

I have been active as a field producer, a fixer, coordinator and a director in Japan since 2016. I have been contributing to numerous productions for major networks including NHK, TV Asahi, Al Jazeera, CNA, Hulu, The Straits Times and Bloomberg. After completing my degree in UK I moved back to Japan and started working in a production office specialising in documentaries, and soon became independent and started working as a fixer and field producer.

• Fixer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Translator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Sound Mixer

Born in 1988 in Aichi, Japan. After studying psychology at university, I worked in infectious disease control in the UK and South Africa. I then worked in corporate sales and IT development for a commercial bank before going freelance. Since the beginning of my career, I have worked both as a photographer and as a producer/fixer/translator/driver, and my strength lies in my ability to care for both the creative and production sides of the business.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Fixer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer
• Translator

Freelancer based in Tokyo. 15+ years as Field Producer for the Japanese public broadcasting corporation, having won numerous domestic awards in documentaries. Fluent in both Japanese and English. Rates depend on the role.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Based in Tokyo to cover whole Japan for shooting film, TV, Branded content. Many feature films, TV commercials, TV shows experience. English and Japanese speaker.

• Production Company
• Fixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Creative Director
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Field Producer
• On-Air Reporter / Host

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Executive Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Full-Service Live Production
• Video Editor - News

Bilingual producer based in Japan since 1995, specilaizing in documentaries and locations.

• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Translator
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• Executive Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location