Select list of film programming and curatorial work below.
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Co-Founder and Co-Programmer (2021-current) of GINZAZA, a series of short films from around the world.
Guest Programmer (2022) at Film at Lincoln Center for a retrospective on filmmaker Yoshimitsu Morita.
Curator (2020-2021) for an online special issue of NANG Magazine focusing on independent cinema spaces in Asia.
Tour Organizer and Programmer (2019) of documentary film, YAMA: Attack to Attack (1985) by Mitsuo Sato and Kyoichi Yamaoka at Anthology Film Archives, Harvard Film Archive, Yale University and Justice Hotel in Chicago.
Guest Programmer (2019) at Film Forum for a 38-film repertory series, Shitamachi: Tales of Downtown Tokyo (named one of Best NYC Art Shows in 2019 on Hyperallergic and featured in The New York Times).
Curator (2019) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for A Gravity of My Own, a solo show of works by artist, Ana García.
Senior Film Programmer (2013-2018) at Japan Society in New York. Organized retrospectives such as Japan Sings: The Japanese Musical Film; Nobuhiko Obayashi: A Retrospective; Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao; Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan’s Greatest Cinematographer (co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art) etc.
Programmer (2014-2018) at Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York.
Public Programs and Margaret Mead Film Festival Coordinator (2012-2013) at the American Museum of Natural History.
Director’s Liaison (2011) for To Save and Project: Festival of Film Preservation at the Museum of Modern Art.
TALKS:
Panelist (2021) for “REFLECTING THROUGH VIRTUAL CINEMAS w/ Abby Sun, Melissa Lyde, Daniella Shreir, Róisín Tapponi” as part of FILM FUTURA ‘21 by NO EVIL EYE CINEMA.
Guest Speaker (2021) at Japan Community Cinema Conference in Tokyo on the state of arthouse cinemas in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Moderator (2020) for an interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the U.S. release of To the Ends of the Earth at Metrograph.
Guest Speaker (2020) for Mohsen Mostafavi’s class at Harvard University Graduate School of Design about my film curatorial approach to exploring a city using Shitamachi: Tales of Downtown Tokyo as a case study.
Organizer and Moderator (2020) for a talk titled “Collaboration and Community in Japanese Cinema During the Pandemic” at Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film.
Speaker (2019) for panel on repertory film screenings at Art House Convergence.
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