Takeshi Fukunaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Takeshi Fukunaga

Japanese filmmaker

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1982

Place of Birth: Date, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Profession: film director

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Takeshi Fukunaga is a Japanese filmmaker based in New York. His first feature film, Out of My Hand (2015) premiered in the Panorama section at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and won the US Fiction Award at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival.
He won the George C.
Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2015 San Diego Asian Film Festival.The film was later released worldwide through Ava DuVernay’s distribution company, ARRAY.
Takeshi was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2017, he was selected for The Residence by Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation to develop his second feature film.