NAO NAKAZAWA
142-35 Koshibami, Nagano 380-0942 Japan, Phone: 81-26-224-0024 nao@naonakazawa.com
www.naonakazawa.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance US & Japan Production Coordinator/Fixer, Sound Recordist, Videographer, Assistant Camera, Editor 10/2012 - current
San Francisco Day School San Francisco, CA: Visiting Instructor 4/2013 – 6/2013
San Francisco State University, Cinema Department San Francisco, CA: Graduate Teaching Assistant (Workshop in Film Production) 1/2011 – 5/2012
Tokyo Television Broadcasting Co. Burlingame, CA: Videographer, Video Engineer, Production Sound, & Editor 10/2004 - 1/2009
• Tokyo Television provide production service to major Japanese broadcasting companies such as, NHK, TBS, Fuji TV, Nippon TV, TV Asahi.
Moonshadow Productions Stockton, CA: Senior Editor & Videographer 1/2002 – 2/2005
• Moonshadow Production produces corporate and educational video to local agencies such as Food 4 Less, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, and San Joaquin County General Hospital.
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University, MFA: Cinema 9/2009 – 12/2013
University of California, Santa Cruz, BA: Film and Digital Media 9/1999 - 6/2001
Cuesta Community College 8/1996 – 5/1999
Nagano Yoshida High School 4/1993 – 4/1996
AWARDS
2011 Leo Diner Memorial Scholarship
2010 Robin Eickman Cinema Study Scholarship
2004 Winner - Telly Awards
2003 Delta Film Festival – Best Documentary & Indelicato Award, Winner-Telly Awards, The Communicator Awards, Videographer Awards, Vision Award
2001 The Sara E. Mathews Endowment for Foreign Student
SKILLS
Production: skilled in professional video/film productions: producing, directing, production sound, camera, editing, sound design.
Teaching: Multi-media, video/film production, and cinema study courses
Computer: Final Cut Pro 7 & X, Logic, Pro Tools & Photoshop
Language: native in Japanese, fluent English as a second language.
REFERENCE
Mr. Lucien Castaing-Taylor Filmmaker and Professor at Harvard University Sensory Ethnography Lab, lgtaylor@fas.harvard.edu
Mr. Yung Chang Filmmaker, yungchang@gmail.com
Mr. Andy Black Cinematographer, ablacknow@aol.com 415-652-6757
Mr. Sam Green Filmmaker, samgreenfilm@gmail.com 415-385-5880
Mr. Richard Kipnis Executive Producer, and owner of Virgin Earth (Tokyo) richard@virginearthinc.com +81-3-5414-7660
Ms. Pat Jackson Associate Professor, SF State University, pjackson@sfsu.edu 415-405-3420
Mr. Dan Olmsted Sound Mixer/Teacher, roozlesr@yahoo.com
Mr. Yoshimi Haruyama Owner, Tokyo TV, haruyama@ttvusa.com 650-552-9100
FILMOGRAPHY
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
SHORT FICTION
Mitsu-ju (2015) Digital/16mm Producer/Writer/ Director/Editor. A period piece about a monster that eats people's secrets. Filmed in Nagano, Japan
• Official Selection: Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival *World Premier
• Official Selection: Asian Film Festival of Dallas
Bolon (2010) 16mm Writer/Director/Art Director/Co-Choreographer/Editor. A silhouette dance film that tells fantasy tale in the style of folklore.
•Official Selection: San Francisco State University Film Finals
{X} (2009) 16mm Director/Editor/Music/Sound Design. An experimental dance film.
Vignettes in The Mist (2009) Super8 Writer/Director/Actor/Editor
A dance film that depicts a man’s adventure into his mind.
The Man without An Identity (2001) 16mm Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor
The Drifting Boat and The Gentile Sea (2000) 16mm/DV Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor
• Official Selection: San Francisco Short Film Festival (2004)
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Merzbau: A Portrait of Kurt Schwitters (2011) Super8 Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Making of Palace of Mirrors (2007) DV Co-Director/Videographer/Editor
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
The Birth of California Shamisen (2007) DV Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor. This documentary film follows the musician Kevin Kmetz who became the first American to compete in Japan’s National Tsugaru Shamisen Competition. Tsugaru Shamisen is Japanese traditional lute.
• Official Selection: Santa Cruz Film Festival (2007) * World Premiere
• Official Selection: Boulder Asian Film Festival (2007)
• Public Screening: Climate Theater, San Francisco & El Cerrito Speakeasy Theater, El Cerrito.
EXPERIMENTAL
Cara in Conversation (2014) Digital Director
Live cinema performance with San Francisco's performance artist Cara Rose DeFabio
Lola (2010) 16mm Director/Cinematographer/Editor. The portrait of a ghost, using old found photos of a woman named Lola from 1920s and 30s. Used optical printing and hand processing.
Portrait of Oakland Series #1 & 2 (2008) DV Director/Videographer/Editor. This series explores Oakland’s back allies using different video styles.
• Grants from Deep Oakland
Study: 2013 (2007) Video Director/Editor. Collaboration of dance, music, poetry, and video about end of the world. Produced by Subject to Change Performance Group
• Performed at ODC Presents: PILOT#50 & Counter Pulse Presents: Stream/Fest
Distant Memories (2007) VHS/DV Director/Videographer/Editor
Black Cat (2006) VHS/DV Director/Videographer/Editor
LIVE MUSIC
Edgardo & Candela: 20th Anniversary Live at Yoshi’s SF (2008) Director/Videographer/Editor
Fishtank Ensemble: Live at the Freight & Salvage DVD (2006) Director/Videographer/Editor
PRODUCER
Bar Answer (In Pre-Production) Directed by Anastasia Kirillova
Sunrise Kids (In Pre-Production) Directed by Steven Dhoedt
Caniba (2017) Associate Producer. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Tayler & Verena Paravel / Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University (2015)
・Special Jury Prize: Venice Film Festival the Orizzonti Section (2017)
・Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival (2017)
・Official Selection: New York Film Festival (2017)
The Voyage Out (2016) Directed by Ana Vaz / Spectre Productions (France)
Gatekeeper (2015) Associate Producer. Directed by Yung Chang / EyeSteel Film (Canada)
・Official Selection: Hot Docs Film Festival (2016)
・Best Short Documentary: Los Angeles Film Festival (2016)
・Official Selection: Guanajuato International Film Festival (2016)
Persistence of Memory (2015) Directed by Natalie Tsui
CBS's “Amazing Race” (2014) Associate Producer
Animal Planet's Monster Week Special “Killer Hornets From Hell” (2014) Associate Producer
CREW
Tokyo Girls (2016) Camera. Directed by Kyoko Miyake
SFMOMA Shorts: Japanese Photographers (2016) Camera. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Untitled Project (2015) Sound Recordist. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel
Saltwater (2014) Background Sound Design. Directed by Lisa Swenson
Lividity (2013) Sound Recordist/Sound Design. Directed by Robyn Kopp
The World's Astonishing News! (2005 – 2013) Assistant Camera . Nippon Television.
Be Home Soon (2012) Editor. Directed by Melissa Howden,
2012 Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection,
2013 Aloha Accolade Award from the Honolulu Film Awards
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) Sound Recordist. Directed by Arwen Curry
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012) Sound Recordist. Directed by Sam Green
Unfinished Artist (2012) Sound Design, Foley, ADR. Directed by Josh Lehman
In Shadows (2012) Location Sound, Foley, Sound Design. Directed by Hannah Anderson
Yield (2011) Camera Assistant. Directed by Natalie Tsui
Bridge (2011) Location Sound, Sound Design. Directed by Feng Shiyan
Are You Chicken? (2010) Assistant Camera, Foley. Directed by Sarah Altshuler
Luz (2010) Assistant Camera, Foley. Directed by Javier Briones
Wine Couch (2008) Videographer/Editor. Web Series by Full Circle Wine Solutions
Line Breaks (2007) Editor. Produced by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Willie Ney
Hello Restaurant (2007 – 2008) Videographer. TV Series by Tokyo TV
El Lenguaje del Tambor (2007) Editor. Produced and Directed by Tina Gallagher
Vamos al Tambor (2006) Editor. Produced and Directed by Tina Gallagher
Calling Home (2004) Videographer/Editor. Docudrama by Moonshadow Productions
Meth: A Dark World & Deadly Epidemic (2003) Videographer/Editor. Documentary by Moonshadow Productions