Morito OKUMURA
奥村盛人

Born in 1978 in Japan, Morito Okumura worked as a journalist for a newspaper for eight years. He decided to become a filmmaker and moved to Tokyo when he was thirty-one. He studied filmmaking at The Film School of Tokyo while working for various productions shot on 16mm and 35 mm serving as a crew member. In 2012, his first feature film “Out to Sea” was nominated to various film festivals, including SKIP City International D-Cinema Festival, and was released in theaters all over Japan in 2013-2014. Since 2016, he is an Adjunct Researcher at Institute for Journalism, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. From 2017, Okumura moved his basis to Austria, Europe to continue his creative activity. Lately, the film entitled "On Certainty 467 " (Austria, 2018), which he joined as a Director of Photography, was screened in the Virginia Film Festival.

岡山県岡山市出身。高知新聞社で社会部を中心に8年間記者生活を送る。2009年新聞社を退社し上京。映画美学校で映画制作の基礎を学ぶ傍ら、35ミリフィルム撮影の現場を経験。初監督作「月の下まで」(監督・脚本)がSKIPシティ国際Dシネマ映画祭などにノミネートされ、2013年から全国で劇場公開される。2016年からは早稲田大学ジャーナリズム研究所に所属してドキュメンタリー映画「魚影の夢」(劇場未公開)を制作。2017年から拠点をヨーロッパに移し創作活動を行っている。2013年から高知県観光特使。近年では撮影監督を担当した「On Certainty 467」(2018年、オーストリア)がVirginia Film Festivalで上映されている。