Chie Hayakawa

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Chie Hayakawa (born August 20, 1976) [1] is a Japanese film director and screenwriter based in Tokyo. [2]

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Personal life and education

Hayakawa graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts in 2001. Her various early short films were screened at the school's gallery and film festivals. [3] She gave birth to two children in New York and returned to Tokyo in 2008. [4]

Film career

In Tokyo, she enrolled in a one-year film program at a night school whilst working. [4] Her thesis film, Niagara, was selected for the screening [5] at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, [6] and won the Grand Prix at the Pia Film Festival. [7]

In 2022, her first feature film Plan 75 , won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. [8] [4]

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