Kyoko Miyake

Kyoko is a Peabody award winning filmmaker. Her latest documentary film, Tokyo Idols, premiered in World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her documentary Brakeless was supported by BBC / ITVS / IKON / NHK / DR and won the prestigious Peabody Award 2014 after airing to great acclaim on BBC and PBS. Kyoko’s first feature-length documentary, My Atomic Aunt (aka Beyond the Wave) was internationally coproduced by broadcasters including BBC, NHK and WDR and supported by numerous grants such as Sundance Documentary Fund. It has been screened at festivals across the world, winning Gold Plaque at Chicago International Film Festival. Hackney Lullabies won the Berlin Today Award 2011 at the Berlin Film Festival. Kyoko is developing narrative feature projects including Femme Fatale, which she is writing and directing. The project has been selected by Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation for their L’Atelier section, Bucheon, Hong Kong and Udine’s film project markets. It has also been supported by Cinema du Monde in France and Sweden’s Film Wast grant. Kyoko has served as a jury member for Hot Docs -North America’s leading documentary film festival - and Sheffield Doc Fest - UK’s leading documentary festival. She has been selected for prestigious programs such as Berlinale Talent Campus, Japanese government’s Artists Grant, Talent Campus Tokyo, Crossing Borders, Documentary Campus, and Pola Art Foundation Grant. Born and raised in Japan, Kyoko moved to UK to study history of English witchcraft at Oxford as a Swire Centenary Scholar, having studied English history at Tokyo University. While studying and working for British and Japanese media, she picked up a camera to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker and started to make short films on her own. She is based in NY since 2016.