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.