JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles is pleased to launch the new film screening program “Emerging Creators” to introduce new, up and coming talent in Japan’s film industry. In this program, we will present the creators who have released up to three feature-length films in their career so far. The first creator that JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will introduce is Director Makoto Nagahisa, who became the first Japanese recipient of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 for his feature-length film, “We Are Little Zombies”.

JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will also feature Director Nagahisa’s previous short film "And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool.", which first caught the eye of festival programmers and brought him international attention when he won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

On September 1, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will host a live director’s talk via Zoom with Director Nagahisa and Kim Yutani, the programming director of Sundance Film Festival. To register, please click here.