Hana Kitasei

HANA KITASEI (cinematographer) is a freelance cinematographer, recently transplanted from Brooklyn. She became passionate about film as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she majored in Mathematics. Since graduating in 2009, Kitasei has shot a wide variety of narrative, documentary, experimental and animated films, including a fairy tale adaptation with Michael Almereyda, a 3D concert documentary in Nepal, and a stop-motion animated interpretation of a Freudian dream. She also worked as a storyboard artist for the 2013 Oscar® nominated short HEAD OVER HEELS. In 2013 and 2014, she assisted and shadowed Ellen Kuras, ASC. While at AFI, Hana received the Alfred P. Sloan Tuition scholarship for her studies.

Hana can be reached at [email protected].