Montreal

Gordon Hashimoto

Gordon Hashimoto is a Montreal-based editor, filmmaker and musician. As a student at Concordia University, he variously produced, wrote, directed, and edited a number of experimental short films; as a professional in the filmmaking industry, he works primarily as a picture editor or assistant editor, on such productions as Rene Levesque, Fries with That, and […]

Ernie Yamaoka

Ernest (Ernie) Nobuichi Yamaoka was born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. At fifteen, on December 25, 1920, he made the lonely and arduous sea voyage to Victoria, British Columbia. He began his life in Canada as a houseboy and through hard work and determination earned a high school Governor General’s medal award and a University of […]

Takako Masumoto

Takako Masumoto was a traditional Japanese textile artist, trained in the Ryukyu Bingata style of katazome. Based in the Montreal area, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (1993), as well as a number of group exhibitions celebrating traditional Japanese culture. After mastering the original Ryukyu […]

Mariko Sato

Mariko Sato is a Tokyo-born concert pianist, accompanist, and teacher based in Montreal. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 18 to study music at Laval University in Quebec City, eventually earning both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She has gone on to an extensive teaching and performance career, performing on three continents and […]

Michael Fukushima

Over 36 years, Michael Fukushima has been an animator, filmmaker, producer, and head of the NFB’s Animation Studio. He’s a member of the AMPAS® Academy, with over 200 films (and some nice awards) under his belt. Now mostly retired, Fukushima skis, cycles, and cherry-picks projects that interest him and “spark joy”.

Nancy Tatebe

Nancy Tatebe was a filmmaker and teaches filmmaking at a college in Montreal. Prior to her teaching career, she worked in the film industry in many capacities, among them as a field producer and production coordinator on both documentary and feature films. As a director, her short films have been screened at festivals across Canada […]

Alan Itakura

Alan Mitsuru Itakura was born on December 16, 1945 in an internment camp in Kaslo, BC just after the end of World War II. Just months after he was born, his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario where he grew up. After graduating from McMaster University (B.Sc. mathematics), he moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1968 to […]