Kira Dane
Kira Dane is a half-Japanese filmmaker and illustrator from New York, currently based in Nara, Japan. Having been shaped and informed by the polar opposite cultures of New York City and rural Japan, she is most comfortable in gray areas. And as an artist, she's most interested in telling stories that dig for nuance. Kira is a Film & TV graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a 2019 fellow of the Sundance Ignite Fellowship Program. Her animated short documentary Mizuko was supported by the If/Then Shorts Program (Tribeca Film Institute, Field of Vision). It was nominated for the IDA Awards, won Special Jury Mention at SXSW and IDFA, along with Best Documentary Short at Atlanta Film Festival. Kira is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, the Video Consortium, and A-Doc.
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Mizuko
In Japan there is a special way to grieve abortions. "Mizuko kuyo" meaning ‘water child memorial’ allows people to metaphorically return their unborn children to the sea. Inspired by this Buddhist ritual, the Japanese-American filmmaker confronts her own experience of abortion in the US.
Mizuko
In Japan there is a special way to grieve abortions. "Mizuko kuyo" meaning ‘water child memorial’ allows people to metaphorically return their unborn children to the sea. Inspired by this Buddhist ritual, the Japanese-American filmmaker confronts her own experience of abortion in the US.
