Kurumi MurataEditor, Japanese & English print

More than fifteen productions as screenwriter, director and director of photography — crews of up to forty, over production cycles of about four months.

Work across the whole of a production rather than one department of it: from pre-production through post, holding creative and operational responsibility and coordinating the leads in camera, lighting, grip, editing and colour to keep one vision consistent across all of them.

  • A car on a sound stage in front of a large LED wall showing a forest road, ringed by lighting flags and stands, with a cinema camera in the foreground.

    Commercial shoot on an LED volume — camera team.

  • A green-screen stage with a drum kit lit at one end and three camera operators working behind tripods.

    Green-screen stage, music video.

  1. Screenwriter, Director & Director of Photography

    15+ narrative, music video, commercial and documentary productions

  2. Director of Photography

    “The Nikkei of Norwalk” — five festivals, one of them an award

  3. Director of Photography

    “Mike Senna, the Star Wars & WALL-E droid maker” — documentary, May 2025, leading a four-person camera team on location

  4. Camera Team

    Commercials for TOYOTA and Crocs

  5. Director of Photography

    Senior film at CSULB — one of ten DPs chosen from a cohort of about forty

  6. Writer & Director

    Junior film at CSULB — selected among the cohort’s top twenty for screening