Mako Kamitsuna

Represented by Worldwide Production Agency (WPA) as a below-the-line talent, Mako is a versatile film editor in both fiction and non-fiction genre. In 2010, Mako edited the award-winning, critically acclaimed indie feature, PARIAH which opened 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently released by Focus Features and won Independent Spirit Awards. In 2012 she edited HBO's documentary mini-series WITNESS, executive-produced by Michael Mann. One of Mako's edited episodes, WITNESS: LIBYA, premiered out of competition in Venice Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for "Best Limited Series" category at 2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards. In 2013 Mako edited two independent feature films: Frank Hall Green's Wildlike, executive produced by Christine Vachon and starring Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty and Ella Purnell; and THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, produced by Todd Labarowski and starring Noah Wyle, Jeremy Irvine, Adelaide Clemens and Steve Earle. Earlier in 2014, Mako edited Tim Blake Nelson's dramatic feature ANESTHESIA starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams and Tim Blake Nelson. Mako has finished post-production of Katherine Heigl-starring JACKIE & RYAN directed by Ami Canaan Mann (TEXAS KILLING FIELD), which premiered in Horizons competition at Venice Film Festival.

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