Director / Editor / Writer

Natsuki Nakagawa

中川奈月

Tokyo, Japan

Director, screenwriter and editor, Represented Through Aoi Pro.’s Biotope Creator Programme. Graduated in literature from Rikkyo University, began making films at the new cinema workshop, then entered Rikkyo’s graduate school of contemporary psychology (visual and body studies) to study under the director Makoto Shinozaki. Her graduation film "She Is Alone" (2018), a lone high-school girl’s revenge after surviving a suicide attempt, won the SKIP City award at the 15th SKIP City International D-Cinema Festival, where it was the only Japanese film in the international competition; selected at Tama New Wave, at Nippon Connection in Germany, and its lead Fukunaga Akari took the acting prize at Tanabe-Benkei. Its screenplay was strong enough to bring in Akiko Ashizawa, the cinematographer of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Koji Fukada and Shuichi Okita, onto a student film, and it drew praise from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Nobuhiro Suwa and Koji Fukada on release.