Biografi
Hideyuki is a Japanese writer and director based in Japan. He started out working across production in Discovery Channel Asia (Singapore) as producer / director, and in 2001 he moved back to Tokyo to work at Walt Disney Television (Tokyo) as a senior producer. Hideyuki studied filmmaking at Vancouver Film School, and continued to hone his craft under the guidance of acclaimed Japanese director, Shunji Iwai, with whom he worked as a producer on the 2002 FIFA World Cup feature documentary. Hideyuki eventually founded TimeRiver Pictures Inc. to independently create feature documentaries, television commercials, music videos, and short films. He made his feature directorial debut with Radio Love, a tale of a series of strange events that inspire a charismatic but disillusioned radio jockey. The film received the Audience Choice Award at Cinema Verde and was distributed nationwide in Japan. Hideyuki's subsequent project, Hiroshima Carp Theatre, a unique human drama related to baseball culture and the city of Hiroshima, screened at the Hiroshima International Film Festival and the Oniros Film Awards, where it received the Hiroshima Peace Award and the Best Feature Film Award respectively. He has also directed features including Dancing in Her Dreams, based on the life of a strip club owner in Hiroshima, and Cinema Angel. The former enjoyed a successful festival run and was honoured with a Jury Award at the Madrid International Film Festival, and the latter garnered accolades for Best Director and Best Feature Film at the Montelupo Fiorentino Film Festival. Hideyuki has also worked on numerous documentaries, including What is Your Important Memory?, about reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's in the US, Put your Heart Together, where Seiko Matsuda and Bob James visit the north of Japan after the great earthquake, New Silkroad Series (China) for the NHK, The History of VFX Movies (US), Who I Am for WOWOW, and Photo from the Sea, Nobu's Japan for Discovery Asia.
