Michael Fukushima - Peggy Baker

Michael Fukushima has been directing and producing animation films since 1984. He joined the NFB in 1990, directing the Hot Docs-winning animated documentary Minoru: memory of exile. Since 1997, he's been a producer at the NFB, where he created Hothouse, a program for emerging young animators. As producer, his most notable credits include Chris Hinton's Genie Award-winning cNote and Howie Shia's Flutter. Michael is co-producing new work by Japanese filmmaker Koji Yamamura as well as Ann Marie Fleming's new NFB film based on the illustrated memoir I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors. He also recently completed new films by Bruce Alcock and Shira Avni.