Kenji Kanno
Chief, Historical investigation
Kenji Kanno is a professor of French language and Intercultural studies at the Tokyo University of Science. He received his doctorate in French literature from the University of Paris X Nanterre. His principal publications include: Science in the Dreyfus affair (2002, Japanese), Judaism, Christianism and Islam can they co-exist? (co-author, 2008, Japanese), History of Jews in France (2016, Japanese, 2 vols). He is the translator in Japanese of Léon Poliakov, Histoire de l’antisémitisme (5 vols), Yakov Rabikin, Au nom de la Torah, Arnold Zable, Cafe Scheherazade. More about his research here.
Mirai Osawa
Director, Visual Art
Born in 1981, graduated from documentary course at The Film School of Tokyo, engaged in the planning,direction and filming of documentaries,TV programmes, and installations basing on his knowledge of anthropology and folklore. Recent work: ‘Mawari Kagura’ (winner, Mainichi Film Awards, Best Documentary).
Rachel Walls
Researcher and Animation Director
Rachel Walls is a lecturer and researcher at Charles Sturt University in Australia, as well as an artist with a long history of practice in fine art and film craft. You can visit her website here.
Henning Schmiedt
Music
Composer & concert pianist born in 1965 from Berlin. He grew up in former East Germany where working with art and music represented social freedom. He played, arranged and produced for many international artists like Mikis Theodorakis, Zülfü Livaneli, Maria Farantouri, Jocelyn B. Smith, Wu Wei, Katrin Sass, Halil Karaduman, George Theodorakis, Sema, Lauren Newton, Maria Del Mar Bonet, Milva, Al di Meola, Petros Pandis to name a few. He also showed creative desire for musical experiments: film soundtracks for Cinema, documentaries, reframing of Mahler’s “Songs on the Death of Children”, sound installations, composition of chamber music, vocal music, etc. In addition to performing in concerts all over the world with different kinds of ensembles and orchestras, he composed for the PAmagieRA project, combining and improvising contemporary chamber music with original world music. Since 2008 he published six Piano Solo albums with original compositions for Tokyo’s label FLAU.
Keiko Miyamori
Design, Art
Japanese artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Yokohama, Japan. During her graduate work, she received the Tamon Miki Award for Modern Painting, while studying traditional Japanese painting. After completing her MFA at the University of Tsukuba, she came to the United States in 1995 after winning an award to study in New York. She returned to the United States again in 1998 to study at the University of Pennsylvania for a year-long fellowship by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (known as Bunka-Cho), moving her studio permanently to the United States. She has since showed mainly in Japan and the United States, with exhibitions in Germany and South Korea as well, including the Ueno Royal Museum, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Art Tower Mito, Taegu Asia Art Exhibition and the Miyagi Museum of Art.
Mifumi Obata
Photography, Coordination
Kiyoshi Sekiguchi
Producer
Born in1956, after graduating from a university, worked at major soft drink company for 38 years mainly in charge of marketing/sales planning. At the age of 60, decided to be a producer of films. While learning producing at a film school in London, served as producer for graduating work for 2 female directors from Israel and Romania. Coming back to Japan, joined Marylka Project. Now working as a producer to develop a documentary/art film to be directed by Mirai Osawa based upon academic outcome of the project.
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