YOKOYAMA, Chisako

横山 智佐子, b. May 1965 (Mie Prefecture)

• executive director and owner of the International School of Motion Pictures (ISMP) in Torrance, California which she established in 2006.
• moved to the States is 1987. Worked as a production assistant while studying at Santa Monica College
• BA in Art and Film Studies (University of California at Santa Barbara, 1991)
• member of IATSE Local 700, Motion Picture Editor's Guild
• worked for over 14 years as assistant editor to the Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia
• started working as a Chief Editor in 2004

Resources:

• Interview with Chisako Yokoyama as Executive Director of ISMP (JP)
• International School of Motion Pictures
• official blog for Saki (2011), Yokoyama's directorial debut