Ann Kaneko

Ann Kaneko is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker. She recently returned from Lima, Peru, where she was a Fulbright Fellow, making a new
documentary Against the Grain, about Peruvian political artists in the post-Fujimori era. She was a participant in the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women where she completed 100% Human Hair, a 17-minute musical extravaganza set in a Los Angeles wig shop. She is a principal collaborator with Cid Pearlman¹s Nesting Dolls Dance Company and created video backgrounds for Drive, a mixed media dance piece mounted at the Getty Museum in June 2001. They are currently developing High Fall which wll be performed at Highways in December 2002.

Her insightful Japan Foundation-funded documentary, Overstay, about foreign migrant workers in Japan, has screened domestically and internationally to enthusiastic audiences. Ann has made several short films, among them, Lucy Goes Shopping, A Shortness of Breath and Displaced which have screened at film festivals worldwide. Ann is also a cinematographer and has shot numerous documentaries and shorts. She graduated from UCLA with an MFA in Directing for Film and Television.

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