Yu Iwasaki is a Tokyo-based filmmaker. His documentary about an Ethiopian asylum seeker in Tokyo, Proof of Family, was selected for Nippon Connection in Frankfurt and won the Audience Award at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival. Tokyo Wanderer, which follows a stateless man from former Yugoslavia, won Japan Premiere Award at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. His new documentary Michinoku Power is about a climate activist in Japan.
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North Cormorant Island was filmed over ten years in the remote fishing village of Kitaushima (which means North Cormorant Island), on Sado Island, Japan. Until the 1960’s the village was only accessible by road, but it was prosperous, and a couple of hundred people lived there, rice-farming, fishing and raising cattle. But…