Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI

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Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI


Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI was born in Osaka to a British father and a Japanese mother in 1989. After graduating from New York University, she worked as an assistant for documentary filmmaker Sam POLLARD and began her career as a film editor. Her directorial debut was the feature-length documentary MONKEY BUSINESS: THE ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS GEORGE’S CREATORS (2017), which won the audience award at the Nantucket Film Festival. Her subsequent documentaries KOSHIEN: JAPAN’S FIELD OF DREAMS (2019 / NC ’21) and THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE (2023 / NC ’24) were screened at international film festivals.

Films shown at Nippon Connection

The Making Of A Japanese, Japan, USA, France, Finland 2023 (Director) NC24
Koshien: Japan’s Field Of Dreams, Japan, USA 2019 (Director) NC21

Guest at Nippon Connection

The Making Of A Japanese, NC24