Director

Laurie Sumiye

Directing

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1969528

IMDb ID: nm4121070

Known for: Directing

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2012 - 2025

Years active: 14

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Biography

Laurie Sumiye is a Hawai’i-born documentary artist and creative technologist who investigates environmental tensions between humans and nature. Her background in interactive media, animation, journalism and design uniquely informs her films, drawings and installations. She has shown her award-winning films at DOC NYC, BAMcinemaFest and DOCUTAH, and presented her art in New York, Los Angeles, Hawai’i and internationally, in the UK, South Africa and Brazil. She has a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, BA & BS in Art and Communications from Bradley University, and studied art at Lorenzo De’ Medici in Florence and Pratt Institute.

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