Nana Yuriko

Nana Yuriko

is a German-Japanese filmmaker and cinematographer. Having spent her youth in Asia, she moved to Berlin in 1994. There she worked as graphic designer for different record labels, as well as art director for the Tresor Club. From 1999 onwards she directed several documentaries, short films and music videos for ARTE, ARD and MTV. In collaboration with Thorsten Kregel she produced the music show ‘Total Extreeem TV’. As cinematographer she worked for ‘Confesstions of a Burning Man’, ‘Poem’ and Ralf Schmerberg’s ‘Problema’. Her passion are documentaries about music and socio-cultural issues. Recently she spent a year in Cambodia, where she shot ‘Beautiful Big Sister’, women portraits for the Heinrich Böll Foundation and ‘Cambodia for Sale’, a film about the forced relocation of a slum for an international human rights organisation.