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Fukushima Michael
Michael Fukushima has been making films since 1984. He joined the National Film Board in 1990, directing the Hot Docs-winning animated documentary, Minoru: memory of exile, and he became an NFB animation producer in 1997. Fukushima co-created the NFB's flagship emerging filmmaker program, Hothouse, and his credits reflect an eclecticism and diversity, particularly around abstract and slightly off-centre animation. He has worked hard to open up the genre to new audiences and new technologies, through interactive installations, mobile phones and urban stories.
Fukushima's notable films include the Genie Award winner, cNote, by Chris Hinton, Lillian Chan's award-winning Jaime Lo, small and shy, two shorts from the Emmy-nominated mobile phone anthology Art of Seduction, and the abstract short HA'Aki, by Iriz Pääbo, winner of the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica. A recent animated documentary by Shira Avni, Tying Your Own Shoes, won both the Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig and the prestigious NHK Japan Prize. He has just completed Oscar®-nominated Japanese filmmaker Koji Yamamura's Muybridge's Strings, Ann Marie Fleming's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, and is currently developing a slate of "arty" short films by a bevy of interesting young Canadian creators alongside a handful of international co-productions.
