Kimi Takesue ('00) is an award-winning filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Film. In 2018, she received a highly-competitive national “Breakthrough Award” and fellowship from Chicken and Egg Pictures for her contributions to the documentary field. Her films have screened at more than three hundred film festivals and museums internationally including Sundance, Locarno, New Directors/ New Films (MoMA & Lincoln Center), SXSW, Mar del Plata, Thessaloniki, London’s ICA, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and have aired on PBS, IFC, Comcast, and the Sundance Channel.

Takesue’s documentary 95 AND 6 TO GO (2016) was nominated for the prestigious 2017 European Doc Alliance Award. The film screened at over twenty-five international festivals including CPH:DOX, Dok Leipzig, DOC NYC, Doclisboa, and the Los Angeles Asian International Film Festival, among many others.

She is Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University-Newark.