Hideki Nakazaki
Directing
Biography
Peruvian-Nikkei filmmaker. Graduated at the International Film and Television School (EICTV, in San Antonio de los Baños) in Cuba, as a filmmaker with the specialty in fictions films. He completed a documentary film diploma at the Cinematography Observatory in Argentina. In the 2022, he participated at the Berlinale Talents BA Program.
Known For
After 91 years of operation, a camera portrays the last image of the "Nakagawa" photographic studio. Its workers reveal the memory of its founder Masao Nakagawa, a Japanese immigrant, founder of the first photographic studio in northern Peru. This is the portrait of time and the memory of a place condemned to be erased by modernity.
The Light of Masao Nakagawa
Sayu, in her adolescence, struggles between divergent realities to shape her identity. On the one hand she is a Cuban who skates and loves to sing, but on the other hand she is a Japanese whose family wants to take her back to Japan to give her a better future.