Eimi Imanishi is an award winning Japanese American director and screenwriter. She earned her BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London where she majored in sculpture, and currently lives in New York. Her short film “Battalion to My Beat” (2017) won the Canal+ Award for Best International Short at Le Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand in 2017 and screened at over 50 festivals worldwide including the Toronto International Film Festival. Her short film “One-Up” (2017) won Best Narrative Short at Indie Memphis and was released as a Vimeo Staff Pick film and won Short of the Week. She is a 2018 Sundance Directing and Screenwriting Fellow, a 2018 Film Independent Directing Fellow, and a 2019 Time Warner Fellow. Imanishi also received the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship through the New York Foundation for the Arts, in Video/Film.
Filmography:
Nomad Shadow (2025)