Aya Tanimura

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Aya Tanimura is an Australian-Japanese writer and director, based in Los Angeles, California. [1]

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Career

Short films

Her directorial credits include Mobius (2011), U-2074 (2010), and Mrs. Kim, (2010) [2] which was a finalist in Los Angeles Magazine's Get L.A. short film competition. [3] Also produced in 2010, Tanimura's film Sweet-As won the People's Choice award and was a finalist for Tourism New Zealand's '100% Pure New Zealand Presents Your Big Break' short film competition. [4] In 2013, Tanimura produced Kill of the Night under Visual Communications' Armed With a Camera fellowship which premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival [5] and later screened at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival. [6]

Music videos

In 2013, Tanimura directed lyric videos for Katy Perry's songs "Roar" [7] and "Unconditionally". [8]

In 2014, she directed Perry's lyric video for "Birthday" [9] which was one of the 2014 MTV VMA nominees for "Best Lyric Video." [10]

In 2016 she directed Alessia Cara's music video for "How Far I'll Go".

In 2017, she directed Perry's lyric video for "Chained to the Rhythm". [11]

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