Hirata Junko

Entered the film production company Telecom Staff in 2000. Won the ATP Newcomers Prize in 2006 for San-dai no koi-monogatari (A Tale of Love in Three Generations). Has produced art documentaries on subjects of modern contemporary poetry and dance, including the dance documentary Pendant Eve (released in 2009). Nippon no kioku (Japanese Memories, 2010) won the Matsukawa Prize at the Yufuin Film Festival. Other award-wining work includes Nanyadoyara: Songs for the Dead and Alive, which depicts Tōhoku shortly after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and a film about the poet Enomoto Sakurako (released in 2015).