Discover Top Fixers 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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)

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• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Assistant

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.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Corporate Videographer
• Fixer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Colorist
• Copywriter
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Translator
• Sound Mixer

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

Freelance Video Journalist based in Osaka, Japan. Available for shooting in all over Japan or outside of Japan.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Translator

Tokyo based creative agency

• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Product Photographer

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Production Coordinator / Crewing

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.

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• Production Coordinator / Crewing
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• Fixer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Drone Operator
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Post-Production Manager

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.

• Fixer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary

26 years in japan, 15 years as a freelance and established M Global in 2008. I am french, our company and trilingual freelancers team is dealing with various activities for general support and assistance before, during and after your visit here, such as: -Coordination work for foreign production coming in japan for their projects.(location hunting, planning, casting, airport pick ups, pocket wifi rental with talkie walkie package and usual logistic with bilingual driver using van according to each projects, on site translation, interviews arrangement, authorization, etc…) -Crew(Camera operator,CA, DOP, sound & Light technician, prod assistant...) -Equipment rental for shootings(Red, amira, black magic, movi 15, Osmo...) -Aerial shoot with helicopter fix cameras or using gimbals for Shotover, Cineflex… -Drones + crew (from go pro to Red...) -Light and sound equipment -Base Camp Studios: All in one shooting, logistic, strategic base, lodge, me

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Investigative journalist, co-founder of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI). She's also a radio reporter and producer with the BBC World Service and with Report, RAI 3. Cerantola has been reporting from Japan since 2007, with a special focus on the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake, the ensuing tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.She covered environmental issues, sex crimes, corruption and cyber crimes for a cross section of media such as the Guardian, The Japan Times and Al Jazeera. In 2016, Alessia was part of the Panama Papers team covering Japan, working as part of a historic collaboration between three Japanese media outlets and of the Paradise Papers in Italy. Her work has been honoured with several journalism awards and nominations, including the Press Freedom Award 2012 by Reporters Without Borders and Unesco, Austria and the Dig Awards.In 2013 she travelled the United States as a Transatlantic Media Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has three masters' degrees in Oriental studies, journalism and corporate finance

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I’ve spent 28 years living, traveling and filming around the world and have a passion for telling stories and sharing the human experience through the power of video and photography. Currently based in Tokyo, Japan, I am a freelance videographer, video editor and photographer with 12 years of professional experience shooting documentary-style films for non-profits, travel videos, and corporate promotional videos. I enjoy working both on land and underwater and have worked intermittently as a NAUI/PADI certified SCUBA diving instructor since 2002. I’ve called various countries home including the US, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the UAE and now, of the second time, Japan. I love travel, adventure, diving, dogs, good food and my wife, not necessarily in that order.

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• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant

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

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• 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

I'm a bilingual (English/Japanese) freelance local producer and production manager with four years of experience in a variety of roles including fixing, location management, interpretation, script translation, crew and vendor management, as well as all aspects of production coordination. I have a strong background in sport, having worked with both international and domestic clients such as World Rugby, UEFA, Huel, and Formula E. However, my versatility extends beyond sports, and I am dedicated to delivering excellence across various industries. From documentaries to commercials and live streams, I've successfully managed diverse projects with precision and dedication.

• Fixer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Translator
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

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