Fujimoto Akio

Born in 1988 in Osaka, Fujimoto studied filmmaking at Visual Arts College Osaka. His first feature film called Passage of Life (Japanese title: Boku no kaeru basho, 2018), about a Myanmar family living in Japan, was screened at 33 international film festivals including the Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2021, he released his second film about Vietnamese technical interns called Along the Sea (Umibe no kanojotachi). The film won numerous awards that year, including the Shindo Kaneto Awards Gold Prize and the TAMA Film Award for Best Up-and-Coming Director. His latest short film, Bleached Bones Avenue (Hakkotsu kaido ACT1), will be screened in theaters in April as part of the special program entitled “View Films and Learn About Myanmar Vol.2.”