Chiemi Karasawa

Founder, Isotope Films

Chiemi Karasawa is an award-winning documentary director/producer who founded Isotope Films and has made Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, The Betrayal: Nerakhoon (Academy Award Nominee, Emmy Award Winner), Billy The Kid, and Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (premiering at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018). She has worked with notable directors including Spike Jonze, Jim Jarmusch, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears and Martin Scorsese as a Script Supervisor.

Chiemi Karasawa
"BYkids realizes the desire to be active participants in a global narrative - empowering a youth to become their own storyteller is having faith in that dream!”

— Chiemi Karasawa, Mentor

I Could Tell You ‘Bout My Life

I Could Tell You ‘Bout My Life

Directed by Directed by Michael Martin (USA) Mentored by Chiemi Karasawa
When Michael Martin got arrested at age 17, a judge sentenced him to jail time on Rikers Island.

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