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View Chiemi Karasawa’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Director/Producer · Filmmaker focused on developing, producing and directing non-fiction based...
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Chiemi Karasawa is fascinated by people. So after having worked in the film industry for almost 15 years as a script supervisor on dozens of narrative films, among them High Fidelity and Adaptation, Karasawa founded her production company Isotope Films in 2005, which she’s devoted to creating intimate studies of interesting characters.
Although she’s being heralded as a breakout director for the acclaimed documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Chiemi Karasawa is no overnight sensation. The California native moved to New York the day after she graduated from Boston University’s film program and began working for a film producer.
Mar 11, 2014 · Chiemi Karasawa delivers that with her new documentary.... the passion for the work, the vulnerability of age, the incredible life ...more. Elaine Stritch told her own story, on stage and...
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Apr 26, 2013 · 'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me' Director Chiemi Karasawa On Her Icon Doc. We talked to the director of the TFF 2013 doc "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" about how she convinced Stritch to participate in her movie, the pros and cons of crowdfunding, and the challenges of filming an icon.
Chiemi Karasawa is known as an Script Supervisor, Producer, Co-Producer, Director, and Supervising Producer. Some of her work includes Amazing Grace, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Billy the Kid, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Elevate, Love Etc., and The Lazarus Effect.
Chiemi Karasawa is an award-winning Director/Producer who founded Isotope Films in 2005 to develop and produce content based on character-driven true stories. Her directorial debut “ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME” will be released theatrically by IFC/Sundance Selects in 2014.
