Megumi Nishikura
producer/ director
I am passionate about addressing our global and social issues through documentary storytelling.
Before working as a producer and director at Blue Chalk Media, I spent five years working for the United Nations, producing and directing documentaries on environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Believing in the healing power of storytelling, I have captured stories of 9/11 survivors and those impacted by the 2011 Tsunami in northeastern Japan.
I received the Rotary World Peace Fellowship which allowed me to pursue a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies while continuing to produce films and videos. My award-winning independent film, "Hafu—the mixed-race experience in Japan" screened theatrically throughout Japan and aired in the U.S. on PBS. In 2015, I produced "Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight" which aired on BBC World News.
I currently work as a freelance Producer & Director in New York.
Deutsche Welle
Who defines who's Japanese? Identity and the Hafu people in Japan
TIME Magazine
Inside One Man's Trip to the Idaho Camp Where His Great-Grandparents Were Held During World War II
Nippon.com
“Hafu” Filmmaker Spotlights Bicultural Japan
Nichi Bei Times
The Megumi Nishikura Story: Filming the distant dance of multiracial Japanese identity
The New York Times
In US Open Victory, Naomi Osaka Pushes Japan to Redefine Japanese
Wall Street Journal
'Hafu' Chronicles the Experience of Half-Japanese
Al Jazeera
Japan's Hafu:
Why does being mixed race feel so foreign?
The Japan Times
Double the trouble, twice the joy for Japan's hafu
NBC News
The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned