★ Yui Kiyohara
Director
★ Our House Screening + Q&A
Oct.6 Sat @ 1:45 PM 【San Francisco Premiere】
2017 | 80 min | English Subtitles | Directed by Yui Kiyohara
Born in Tokyo in 1992.
She completed a master’s program in Directing at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, where Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa was her mentor. Our House is her graduation project and her first feature film. Winning the Grand Prix at the 2017 PFF Award helped the piece find a distributor and win a release in Shibuya early this year. From there it was on to successes at the Berlin and Hong Kong International Film Festivals as well as at MoMA and Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films, followed by an invitation to the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival as well as many others. She is considered as one of the freshest and most talented young directors of today’s Japan.
© GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FILM AND NEW MEDIA, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS.
