Education
2013 - Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
BFA Film&Video
Background includes Art Education classes: Creating Community, Exhibitions, Art & Human Development, Saturday Studios: Pre-practicum I
2007 - Trans Pacific Hawaii College, Honolulu, HI AA Liberal Arts
Awards
2016 - Best Experimental Short Award for Blow Up Film Fest, IL
2016 - Jury’s Citation Award for Black Maria Film Festival, NJ
2013 - Stan Brakhage Award for Film & Video at Massachusetts College of Art, MA
Exhibitions & Festivals
2017 - Black Maria Film Festival/Tour - Screened at Hoboken Historical Museum & Anthology Film Archives
2016 - Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL
3A Gallery Film Festival, New York, NY
Haverhill Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
Blow Up Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2015 - Japan Cuts at Japan Society, New York, NY
2013 - Senior Film/Video Exhibition at Kendal Cinema, Cambridge, MA
Candy Crush Show at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Skills
Final Cut Pro X, Adobe (Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign and Illustrator), iMovie, iStopmotion, Dragonframe, DSLRs, Sony FS5, Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), FTP, Tumblr, Youtube, Vimeo, Analog Filmmaking (16mm &8mm)
Language Skills: Japanese is first language; fluent in English.
Akiko Maruyama
Born in Fukuoka, Japan