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Randall Okita
Directing · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Biography
Randall Okita is a Japanese Canadian artist and filmmaker known for creating work that involves rich visual language and innovative approaches to storytelling. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions, awarded internationally, and screened around the world. Recent work includes directing the feature film See for Me (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival), writing and creating the virtual reality experience The Book of Distance (Sundance, Venice, Tribeca) with the National Film Board of Canada, and showing A Place Between, a solo exhibition of artwork at the Prince Takamado Gallery in Tokyo. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Okita lives and works in Toronto and Japan.
Known for

See for Me
Director

The Lockpicker
Director
No Contract
Director
Menace
Director

Ben Heppner: Moving Through Music
Director

Machine With Wishbone
Director

Alberta Number One
2024
Fish in Barrel
Director
The Book of Distance
Director
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
Man
Filmography
- 2024Alberta Number One
- 2022See for MeDirector
- 2020The Book of DistanceDirector
- 2018The LockpickerDirector
- 2016Ben Heppner: Moving Through MusicDirector
- 2014The Weatherman and the ShadowboxerNarrator
- 2013Portrait as a Random Act of ViolenceMan
- 2012No ContractDirector
- 2009Fish in BarrelDirector
- 2008Machine With WishboneDirector
- —MenaceDirector
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