Filmmaker and Photographer - Meg Igarashi is a Japanese-American award-winning filmmaker who loves working on multicultural stories rooted in complex human relationships. She loves to tell stories from a child’s perspective and passionate about coming of age stories. Meg has a background in film & TV , musical theater, video production, as well as photography. As a kid, Meg acted on screen and in many theater productions. As a teenager, she started making videos for fun, which began her love for filmmaking. At 19, she started working professionally in video production. In 2022, Meg's directional debut, Kid Heart - a musical short film set in Japan - was funded by Oscar-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia and Amuse Inc., which has now won and been screened at many film festivals. Her second short film, Tamagoyaki, was shot in the UK and is now starting its film festival run. Tamagoyaki has been selected for BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals. Meg is an optimistic, passionate storyteller who puts heart at the center of all her projects and everything she does.…

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Filmmaker and Photographer - Meg Igarashi is a Japanese-American award-winning filmmaker who loves working on multicultural stories rooted in complex human relationships. She loves to tell stories from a child’s perspective and passionate about coming of age stories. Meg has a background in film & TV , musical theater, video production, as well as photography. As a kid, Meg acted on screen and in many theater productions. As a teenager, she started making videos for fun, which began her love for filmmaking. At 19, she started working professionally in video production. In 2022, Meg's directional debut, Kid Heart - a musical short film set in Japan - was funded by Oscar-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia and Amuse Inc., which has now won and been screened at many film festivals. Her second short film, Tamagoyaki, was shot in the UK and is now starting its film festival run. Tamagoyaki has been selected for BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals. Meg is an optimistic, passionate storyteller who puts heart at the center of all her projects and everything she does.…

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Filmmaker and Photographer - Meg Igarashi is a Japanese-American award-winning filmmaker who loves working on multicultural stories rooted in complex human relationships. She loves to tell stories from a child’s perspective and passionate about coming of age stories. Meg has a background in film & TV , musical theater, video production, as well as photography. As a kid, Meg acted on screen and in many theater productions. As a teenager, she started making videos for fun, which began her love for filmmaking. At 19, she started working professionally in video production. In 2022, Meg’s directional debut, Kid Heart - a musical short film set in Japan - was funded by Oscar-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia and Amuse Inc., which has now won and been screened at many film festivals. Her second short film, Tamagoyaki, was shot in the UK and is now starting its film festival run. Tamagoyaki has been selected for BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals. Meg is an optimistic, passionate storyteller who puts heart at the center of all her projects and everything she does.

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Skills

Experience Level

Adobe Premiere Pro
Expert
Short Film
Expert
Adobe Lightroom
Expert
Photo
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate
Final Cut Pro X
Intermediate
Adobe After Effects
Intermediate
Video Advert
Intermediate
Music Video
Intermediate
Script
Intermediate
Motion Graphic
Intermediate
Promo Video
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent
Japanese
Advanced

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment
    uniE613 St. Marks School Promo
    Here is a School Promo I shot and edited for a school in London called St. Marks through the company Heyday UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy7Z357IWFY…
    uniE613 How to Make Green Tea - Food and Travel Video
    Here is a video I shot for the Youtube channel, Japan by Food with 177k subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnBMe-v1dc…
    uniE613 How to Make Tofu - Food and Travel Video
    Here is a video I shot for the Youtube channel, Japan by Food with 177k subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty7SbvMr1FQ…
    uniE613 Kid Heart - Short Film by Meg Igarashi
    Meg's first short film, Kid Heart, a musical short film set in Japan, has won 9 awards and been selected for 31 film festivals. She wrote, directed, edited, and wrote all the songs for the film. She also did some of the end credits illustrations. https://vimeo.com/841191999…
    uniE613 Ed Sheeran - Midnight (Official Video)
    Last year, Meg was one of the 14 selected out of 4,000 applicants to create a music video for Ed Sheeran's Autumn Variations album. She directed and edited the music video within a month. You can find the video on Ed Sheeran's Youtube Channel and read more about it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQX7XhHSLnU&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/ed-sheeran-official-music-videos-autumn-variations-1235502039/…