Kazuhiro Soda

Roles: Director

Kazuhiro Soda is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker. He’s also a recipient of the Marek Nowicki lifetime achievement prize awarded by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.He practices an observational method of documentary filmmaking based on his own “Ten Commandments” which prohibits him from doing pre-shoot research or writing a synopsis before filming. He imposes these rules on himself in order to minimize preconceptions and to be able to make unexpected discoveries while filming and editing.

He is also the author of 10 books published in Japan. One of them Why I Make Documentaries is translated into English, Chinese, and Korean. He taught at the University of Michigan as a visiting professor from 2016 till 2017

2025 Program(s):
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine