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ROSALEE YAGIHARA is an award-winning filmmaker with her short film GNAW winning multiple awards at festivals around the world had has screened at top tier genre festivals including the acclaimed Overlook Festival in New Orleans. Her award-winning documentary short A COMMON THREAD has been rated as a top impact film.
For the past decade Rosalee has been developing her skillsets by working as an Assistant Director and she is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. As an AD, she works on feature films & episodic television. She studied at Emily Carr University and Vancouver Film School.
Before transitioning to film, Rosalee resided in Japan as well as New York City before returning to Vancouver to further her education and raise her children. She is a self proclaimed soulful thrill seeker and loves adventuring on two wheels.
Trailer for the award winning horror short GNAW.
This documentary short features slow clothes artisans and their reasons for creating textiles in a more mindful way. Featuring a weaver from the Musqueam Nation resurrecting the extinct spinning and weaving practices of her ancestors and the founders of Maiwa Handprints sharing the issues of global textile skill preservation. While examining the slow clothes production process this film examines Ghandi's key concepts from his powerful Khadi movement which are a solution for our climate crisis.
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