Masako Tsumura

Roles: Director

Born in Tokyo, Masako moved to New York City in 1997. In 2003 she founded Imakoko Media. In 2008, she directed and produced Fire Under the Snow, a feature documentary film about the Venerable Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk who survived 33 years of imprisonment and torture under the Chinese occupation in Tibet. The film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2008, and won the Special Jury Mention at Miradas Film Festival in 2009.