Yoshimasa Jimbo

Born in 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. Based in Tokyo and Fukuoka. Until 2011, he traveled overseas a lot as a travel agency employee, but quit his job to be a filmmaker. Started the life as a film (...) director in 2013, he directed his first feature film “I’m Ten, then I’ll Catch Eleven”. It was granted by the Osaka city government, screened in the country and overseas, and nominated for the new director award of Directors Guild of Japan in 2014. In 2016, he moved from his hometown Tokyo to Fukuoka to broaden his network with the other Asian countries and childrearing. His short film "The Girl Who Never Knew War” (2015) screened world-wide including 30th Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults in Iran. He participated in Autumn Meeting, an annual cinema program founded by Phan Dang Di, joined the directing workshop by Tran Anh Hung and strengthened his network with other young talents in Asia. In 2017, He created “Here and Here” as a part of the Residency Film Production in Busan. It strengthened his network with Busan filmmakers and eventually he directed "Here and Elsewhere, On and On” (2017) in Japan with them. After that, invited by an Iranian filmmaker in 2018, the production of the feature film "On the Zero Line" started (expected to be completed in January 2021). From 2019 to 2020, he edited the feature documentary film "Mottainai Kitchen". The topic of the film is the food waste problems in Japan. Thus, his main field has been gradually shifted to international co-production filmmaking. He broadens his network internationally by participating in several workshop programmes such as Fantastic Film School (organised by BiFan), Kyoto Filmmakers Lab (organised by Kyoto Historica Film festival), Talents Tokyo (organised by Tokyo FILMeX). In addition to that, he has deepened his knowledge and experience by joining the program team of Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival and Fukuoka Architecture Foundation.