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Team
SYBILLA PATRIZIA—
Director, DoP, Editor
Sybilla Patrizia is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Tokyo.
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.
Her work has been published by the BBC, VICE, NHK, the Financial Times, adidas and Amazon Prime Japan.
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CLEMENTINE NUTTALL—
Creative 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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KAORI SAKANO—
Producer, FAB Inc.
Kaori used to work as a producer for a film studio, KADOKAWA Inc. During her years there, she produced a fiction feature film “Roadside Fugitive” (2012), “Recipes of Diet Diaries” (2013) and a documentary feature film, “Tasha Tudor, A Still Water Story” (2017). Recently, Kaori produced “My Retirement, My Life” (2018), 'Intimate Stranger (2022)'.
EMI UEYAMA—
Producer, ARTicle Films
Emi Ueyama is the founder of ARTicle Films and a producer whose films have screened at Berlinale, Hot Docs and IFFR.
Her films include, "The Legacy of Frida Kahlo" which screened at international festivals such as Hot Docs and Guadalajara IFF the short doc “TOKYO KURDS", which screened at Hot Docs, NETPAC Asian FF, and 20 other film festivals. Fumiari Hyuga’s "I am a comedian" was selected for the DMZ Industry Rough Cut Presentation and Cannes Docs, Doc in Progress, and had its world premiere at DMZ and the Tokyo International Festival. She also produced "Film Fetish" which premiered at IFFR and Jeonju International Film Festival and “Voices of the Silenced” which screened at Busan IFF and Berlin Forum.