MARCIO EDAGI
YUUMI AOYAMA
Yuumi holds a BA from Temple University Japan Campus. Before jumping into the film and video industry, Yuumi was a writer for the Japan edition of Time Out Magazine where she extensively researched the hottest dining and entertainment trends in Tokyo. Among her passions is also educating children. While in college she worked on a project called “The Young Americans”, a music educational program with other 1000 participants. Most recently she’s worked as a researcher, production assistant, and location manager on bigger shows such as the Belgian edition of Talpa’s “Around the World with 80-year olds”, “Planet Child” for ITV, and corporate documentaries on Fukushima for Microsoft.
IRENE CAROLINA HERRERA
Irene is multilingual Cuban-Venezuelan filmmaker, visual journalist, and educator with over 15 years experience producing and creating documentary and journalistic content in traditional and new media formats with an emphasis on Latin America and Asia.
Upon finishing her B.A. in visual journalism and cinema studies, she headed to Japan as a Monbukagakusho scholar to pursue an M.A. in filmmaking and doctoral studies in photography at Nihon University.
Among her documentary works are "Gaijin no Honne: The story of 5 women in Tokyo" (2004); "Kodo wo Awaseba" (2005); "You Can Call Me Nikkie" (2008); "Women in Refuge: Stories from a Border" (2009); "Crossing Hispaniola" (2010); "Spirits to Enlightenment" (2012); "Some Bunny Loves You" (2013), and collaboration with "Japan in a Day" produced by Ridley Scott. These works have been shown in festivals such as Asian American International Film Festival, UNAFF, HOT DOCS, the Boston. Her work and love for travel have taken her to over 55 countries where she has learned 5 languages.
LINDEE HOSHIKAWA
Lindee earned her BA in Communications (Film and Media) from Temple University, Japan Campus, and worked on numerous film, TV, music and media projects during 2009-2011 in the Tokyo area. In 2009, Lindee was awarded the Creative Arts Research Grant (CARAS) froexamplem Temple University, and became a creative partner on the Global Lives Project, assistant directing the Lebanon shoot and acting as post-production lead for the Kazakhstan shoot. In 2010, she was awarded the Academic Award; Community Outreach and Promising Professional Awards from Temple University. In 2010, Lindee associate-produced the award-winning documentary film Tokyo Waka, a visual poem about Tokyo, its people and 20,000 crows directed by Stylo Films. Lindee’s music has also been used in the award-winning documentary film, NIKKEI by Venezuelan director, Kaori Flores Yonekura. Lindee continues to freelance translate for various media projects.
Lindee is also a professional performing musician. Lindee’s foundations are deeply rooted in jazz, but she also incorporates pop, blues and soul into her performances and original compositions. She has recorded and self-released three titles: “Long Road EP” (2007), “Songs From Tokyo” (2012) and “Mother Miriam” (2015) (with Latin Grammy award-winning producer, Enrique Gonzalez Müller.) Lindee currently holds multiple performing residencies in both Western and Eastern Washington, USA and performs around 150 shows annually.