Kudo Riho

KUDO Riho (1995, Japan) is a film director and graduate of the Kyoto University of the Arts. Her graduation project, the feature film Orphans' Blues (2018), won the Grand Prize at the PIA Film Festival in 2018 as well as the Cinefilm Prize at the Yokohama Independent Film Festival, the Nara-Wave Best Picture and the Audience Award at Nara International Film Festival, and the Best Actress Award for Murakami Yukino at TAMA New Wave. Her next film, Let Me Hear It Barefoot (2021), was selected for IFFR 2022.