Satō Sonomi

Filmmaker from Ishinomaki, Miyagi, born in 1996. Her younger sister, a student at Ōkawa Elementary School, perished in the tsunami after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Satō commenced her film studies at Nihon University in 2015. In 2019, during a gap year, she independently made a dramatic film, Haru o kasanete (Spring After Spring Passes Us By). Her graduation work was entitled Anata no hitomi ni hanasetara (If These Letters Reach Your Eyes). After earning her degree, she worked for a television program production company and a film distributor, while continuing to promote screenings or her two films across Japan. In 2024, she was selected to receive practical production training under the New Directions in Japanese Cinema, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and is currently producing a new work.