People

Eiko Mizuno-Gray

Japan

Biography

Eiko Mizuno-Gray is CEO and producer at Loaded Films in Tokyo. She began her career at the Toronto International Film Festival as a publicist, and is now focused on international co-productions with Japan. She produced MAGIC KIMONO (Latvia-Japan, 2017) and 2018 anthology TEN YEARS JAPAN (Japan-Hong Kong, executive-produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda). Her most recent production is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Japan-Uzbekistan-Qatar) which closed the Piazza Grande at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. CEO and delegate producer at Loaded Films in Tokyo, which is focused on international co-productions. She has produced "Magic Kimono," starring Kaori Momoi and Issey Ogata (Latvia-Japan), anthology film "Ten Years Japan" (Japan-Hong Kong, executive-producer Hirokazu Kore-eda) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s "To the Ends of the Earth" (Japan-Uzbekistan-Qatar). Also produced Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s episode of Amazon Prime series "Modern Love Tokyo." "Plan 75" is her most recent production, which won the Camera d'Or Special Mention in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and was Japan's official entry to the 2023 Academy Awards' international feature category.

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