Kazuhiro Soda Filmmaker

Kazuhiro Soda

 

 

Kazuhiro Soda is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker. He's also a recipient of the Marek Nowicki lifetime achievement prize awarded by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.He practices an observational method of documentary filmmaking based on his own "Ten Commandments" which prohibits him from doing pre-shoot research or writing a synopsis before filming. He imposes these rules on himself in order to minimize preconceptions and to be able to make unexpected discoveries while filming and editing.

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He is also the author of 10 books published in Japan. One of them Why I Make Documentaries is translated into English, Chinese, and Korean. He taught at the University of Michigan as a visiting professor from 2016 till 2017. He has been a jury member for many international film festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, Busan, and Hong Kong. Retrospectives of his works have been held in France, Croatia, Poland, South Korea, Canada, Italy, Belgium, China, and Taiwan.

 

 

 

Contact

 

kazsoda(at)gmail.com

 

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