ARTISTS
#Akio Fujimoto
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1988. He studied filmmaking at Visual Arts College Osaka. His debut feature film, *My Place to Return* (2018), which portrays a Burmese family living in Japan, won the Best Film Award in the Future of Asia section and the Japan Foundation Asia Center Special Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2021, he released his second feature film, *Girls by the Sea* (a Japan-Vietnam co-production), which portrays Vietnamese technical interns. He continues to produce co-production films primarily set in Asia, including Myanmar.
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