Yayoi Winfrey

Yayoi Winfrey

Honolulu, Hawaii

Throwing Rice Productions LLC
DirectorEditorProducerScreenwriterIllustrator

About Yayoi

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Awards

  • Official Selection: Anatolia International Film Festival (Tokyo Lily)
    (2023)

  • Best Trailer: Shiny Sparkle Independent Online Film Festival ("War Brides of Japan")
    (2022)

  • Official Selection: 1st Edition of Continental Film Awards ("Chickens Playing Chicken")
    (2021)

  • Best NA Animation Short: 1st Edition of Continental Film Awards ("Chickens Playing Chicken")
    (2021)

  • Official Selection: Best Animation Award ("Chickens Playing Chicken")
    (2021)

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Credits

  • War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: Herstory

    War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: Herstory (2019)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions/Yayoi Winfrey (Documentary) Director “Herstory” is the 1st of 5 films about Japanese women who married their former enemies following WWII. This film features two historians.

  • War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Brides

    War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Brides (2019)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions/Yayoi Winfrey (Documentary) Director “The Brides” is the 2nd of 5 films about Japanese women who married their former enemies following WWII. This film features two brides, one married to a black soldier and the other to a white one.

  • War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Kids

    War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Kids (2019)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions/Yayoi Winfrey (Documentary) Director “The Kids” is the 3rd of 5 films about Japanese women who married their former enemies following WWII. This film features the adult children of war brides discussing growing up mixed-race.

  • War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Culture

    War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Culture (2019)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions/Yayoi Winfrey (Documentary) Director "The Culture” is the 4th of 5 films about Japanese women who married their former enemies following WWII. This film features the adult children and grandchildren of war brides discussing their cultural heritages.

  • War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: BFF’s; Buddhist Friends Forever

    War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: BFF’s; Buddhist Friends Forever (2019)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions/Yayoi Winfrey (Documentary) Director “BBF’s; Buddhist Friends Forever” is the 5th of 5 films about Japanese women who married their former enemies following WWII. This film features a war bride, her husband, and several adult children all linked through their Buddhist religion.

  • War Brides of Japan

    War Brides of Japan (2012 - 2018)
    Documentary by Throwing Rice Productions (Documentary) Director War Brides of Japan is about the brave, bodacious and bad-ass women who married their former enemies when the US occupied their country following WWII.

  • Silent Shame

    Silent Shame (2010)
    Film (Documentary, History and War) Writer A Japanese-born filmmaker took seven years to peel back the cultured facade of her country, and uncovers its darkest secrets giving us a shocking and provocative look at Japan's inhumanity in war.

  • Portrait of Artists as Latino Immigrants

    Portrait of Artists as Latino Immigrants (2005)
    Film (Documentary and Short) Cinematographer "Portrait of Artists as Latino Immigrants" is a thirty two-minute long documentary that features the stories and art of four Latinos who live throughout California. These artists are in different stages of their immigration process, through their unique stories we will find a tale that is common to every immigrant; through their art, we will be able to recognize different moments in the transition from immigrant to American. Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Maria Amparo Escandon, and Victor Cartagena are the artists portrayed in "Portrait of Artists as Latino Immigrants", in their different artistic disciplines, reflect the experience of Latino immigrants in California, their hopes and visions. Einar and Jamex de la Torre crossed many years ago, when they were still children. Taking the best of each culture, they have crafted their own identity. An identity that allows them to feel "at home" on either side of the border and at the same time being observers and critics of their native and ... Written by TGR

  • Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O.

    Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O. (2002)
    Television (Documentary and Comedy) Camera and Electrical Department A film of Margaret Cho's one-woman stand-up show, in which she presents her take on modern sexual topics and minority issues.

  • Ghosthunter!

    Ghosthunter! (2000)
    Film (Comedy) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Add a Plot »

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