Rosalee Yagihara | Director
ROSALEE YAGIHARA is an accomplished filmmaker hailing from Vancouver, Canada. Her daring short film GNAW has screened at genre festivals around the world including the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans. Her documentary short A COMMON THREAD, which shines light on issues pertaining to textile production from indigenous and sustainability perspectives, has been rated as a top impact film.
For over a decade Rosalee has developed her filmmaking sensibilities working as an Assistant Director and is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. As an AD, she works on feature films & episodic television.
Before transitioning to film, Rosalee resided in diverse locales such as Japan and New York City before returning to Vancouver to further her education. She studied at Emily Carr University and Vancouver Film School. Beyond her creative pursuits, she finds rejuvenation in the majestic beauty of British Columbia’s mountains and the exhilaration of riding motorcycles, embodying a spirit of adventure in her pursuits.
[Sumitra is a name given to Rosalee by a spiritual teacher and means 'a good friend to everyone'.]
ROSALEE YAGIHARA DIRECTOR'S REEL
A COMMON THREAD DOCUMENTARY
This short doc features several artisans producing 'slow clothes' and their reasons for creating textiles in a more mindful way, including a weaver from the Musqueam Nation resurrecting the almost extinct spinning and weaving practices of her ancestors and the founders of Maiwa Handprints sharing issues of global textile skill preservation. Woven through these stories are Ghandi's key concepts from his powerful Khadi movement, which are an important concepts for our current climate crisis.