Takeshi Fukunaga is a Japanese filmmaker based in New York.

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Takeshi Fukunaga
Fukunaga in 2022
Background information
Born	(1982-09-10) September 10, 1982 (age 40)
Origin	Date, Hokkaido, Japan
Occupation(s)	Writer / Director

His first feature film, Out of My Hand (2015) premiered in the Panorama section at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival[1] and won the US Fiction Award at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival.[2] He won the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2015 San Diego Asian Film Festival.[3]

The film was later released worldwide through Ava DuVernay’s distribution company, ARRAY. Takeshi was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards.[4] In 2017, he was selected for The Residence by Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation to develop his second feature film.

Select Filmography

• Out of My Hand (2015)
• Ainu Mosir (2020)
• Mountain Woman (2023)[5]

External links

• Out of My Hand at IMDb
• Takeshi Fukunaga(Wikipedia:Japanese)
• Takeshi Fukunaga at IMDb

References