Team
SYBILLA PATRIZIA—
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Sybilla Patrizia is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo. In her work, she has covered social, cultural and political topics such as the struggles of the Tibetan Diaspora in Northern India, the stigmatization of menstruation in Japanese society and the LGBTQ+ community in Tokyo.
In 2022 Sybilla Patrizia shot the cover of the Financial Times’ HTSI Magazine, featuring Japan’s best-selling female author Mieko Kawakami and UNCENSORED, a documentary about child abuse in Japanese manga which aired on the Emmy Award-winning show VICE on Showtime.
Her work has been published by the BBC, Financial Times, VICE , NHK, and AnOther Magazine.
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CLEMENTINE NUTTALL—
Producer
Clementine Nuttall is a British interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a background in craft and education, whose range of projects all advocate for material literacy and explore the human role in the material life cycle. Her work has been exhibited and screened worldwide.
The short “Unbroken” that she produced with Patrizia explored her work in the field and won Best Film at the 2019 Ginza Short Film Contest. In the UK she worked extensively for the Royal Household and received several prizes including the Winston Churchill Fellowship and the Japanese Ministry of Culture Scholarship. Her work has been profiled in a variety of print media, on the BBC television series ‘Living the Dream’ and in the books ‘Protecting the Sacred Space’ and ‘Hermès Japon Social Good Book’.
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NAOTO JOHN TANAKA
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Production Coordinator, Translator
Naoto John Tanaka is an artist based in Tokyo. His works involve the history of the land he is in, and in addition to working with visual media himself, he has professional experience transcripting and translating text between Japanese and English for existing works, including videos for ‘Don’t Follow the Wind’, an international exhibition curated by ChimPom, Kenji Kubota, Eva and Franco Mattes and Jason Waite.
He also teaches creative writing and logical thinking at a Japanese high school.