Staff list - Good Fellows -

●　Yoshinari Natsumeda
Producer

Yoshinari is the general manager of Gauguins International and one of the originators of the openArt project. His experience as a producer covers all fields of the media industry, from short films to video games. He is as comfortable chatting about short films in panel discussions as in galleries or art universities. Yoshinari served as jury member of the Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival.
Passionate about film above all things, he has no time for such trivial matters as sleeping or eating.

Mitsue shared her love for the visual arts in her work as a museum curator and writer for cultural magazines. She now puts all her soul into the openArt project that she initiated in 1999. Her time is spent promoting openArt worldwide and distributing short films throughout Europe. Her globetrotting is impaired by her lack of physical strength due to a cranial injury from a car accident. She’s not very good at calculation but has the talent to make friend with anyone, anywhere. She was part of the jury at the Vila do Conde and Imago festivals (both in Portugal) as well as the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival.
Mitsue is proud of the 20,000 files in her i-Tunes library (legally downloaded).

●　Yoko Yamamoto　　
Managing director

Yoko oversees communication with hundreds of people, manages a database packed with thousands of files and pictures and makes sure information flows efficiently. She is the pillar of strength of the company and when she is away, the staff feels lost as a Japanese husband without his wife. Unafraid of work
Despite her love for sweets from the convenience store (her only flaw), she remains worryingly thin.

Denis is a French filmmaker whose contribution to the openArt project is essential. His tasks include mediation with film professionals around the world as well as the production of video interviews. Ex-classmate of Sofia Coppola, he makes the most of his international experience and contacts in France, the U.S and China. It would be impossible for openArt to develop without Denis’ network, which extends far beyond Japanese frontiers.
He recently started an acting career in Japan and can sing silly songs by Japanese pop idols.

Takuya is in charge of openArt’s visuals. Like a digital-age Midas, he can make old and damaged footage look new by a click of his mouse. A very active filmmaker, his works have been selected in international festivals, broadcast on television and recently commercially distributed.
Takuya likes to break in abandoned buildings and let ghosts whisper in his ear ideas for his next movie.

Chiemi is responsible for openArt’s design. Her passion for the new technologies can get her over any kind of technical trouble. When she’s got money, she does not hesitate and would rather buy digital gadgets than a dress. She has two sons, one dog, two cats and only one mobile phone. As openArt‘s representative in Osaka, she attends film screenings taking place in Japan’s western region.
Some say google maps, food markets of department stores and the sweets she buys online occupy large parts of her brain.

Hiroko became acquainted with openArt at the Clermont-Ferrand short film festival a few years ago. She has lived in Paris for a long time and uses her perfect command of French for translations, including subtitles of Japanese animation. A quiet and reserved girl, her passion for short films knows no limit and she bravely managed to organize a short film festival in her Japanese hometown of Himeji.

●　Hideyuki Tokigawa
Film director

ideyuki is active all over Asia and has a network of friends that covers the entire planet. One only has to say the magic formula “I’m a friend of Yuki’s” to be introduced to many talented people in the film industry. He participates in all kinds of projects, helping young directors as well as producing big budget movies.
His own work as a director is distributed by openArt.

●　Loic Sturani
Film director

Everything started with an encounter at a film festival when Loic showed us his mysterious animation “Sushis from space”. He has since directed many projects in Japan, some of which are released on DVD. It sometimes hits Loic that he is spending a lot of time in the openArt office, working or sleeping.
He speaks fluent Japanese, masters Okinawa cooking and wears traditional Japanese socks with split toe.

●　Aldo-Marie Codo
Intern

Aldo is from the African nation of Benin but now lives in Lyon, France’s second largest city. He speaks Beninese, French and English fluently and takes part in communication with various international film professionals. Aldo wanted to become a lawyer but switched to media studies after his encounter with openArt.
He is known for his jovial personality and recently managed to get his photo published in the third most important French newspaper “Libération”.

●　Ken.　 I　　　　
founder

A legend in the I.T business world, Ken has been deeply involved in the openArt project from the start. He now runs an important government project relating to the new media.