Yujiro Seki

Born and Raised in Japan, Yujiro Seki discovered his passion for film-making when he was in high school. Through making his first feature film, Sokonashi Deka (The Enigmatic Detective), he became enamored with the imaginative possibilities of cinema and vowed to master the art through study in the United States.

Despite the fact that starting a new life in a new country was a challenge in itself, Yujiro earned a BA Degree in Film from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a short film, Sashimi Taco, for his senior, honors thesis.

Following his graduation, Yujiro moved to Los Angeles to work as a director of the video department for Intermarket Design, and as a film instructor at Montecito Fine Arts College of Design. After attaining permanent U.S. residency, Yujiro began studying full time in the Cinematography program at UCLA extension. And upon graduating from that program, he embarked on the journey of his feature documentary project, Carving the Divine.

Aside from film-making, Yujiro loves studying Spanish, philosophy, religion, art, traveling, screenwriting, and salsa dancing.