teruhisa yoshida
director of photography / co-founder
Born and raised in Osaka Japan, Teru obtained his BFA in Film & Television with a Cinematography Emphasis from Chapman University. Teru made his debut as an international DP for Strawberry Cliff (2010), which was produced as a U.S/Hong Kong/France co-production. This feature film was also nominated for the “New Currents Award” at the most prestigious film festival in Asia, the Pusan International Film Festival.
He continued his involvement in the international world when he shot a music video for Doda, the top pop artist in Poland. The video, XXX, won “The Music Video of the Year” for the 2012 VIVA Comet Awards, a prestigious accolade in the European music industry. His involvement in the digital world launched his career as a digital DP for one of the most commercially successful Japanese video game franchises of all time, Resident Evil, having specifically worked on Resident Evil 5 and 6. Resident Evil 5, in particular, was the first video game to use a virtual camera that recorded live motion tracking, which was a similar technology used to film James Cameron’s Avatar in 2009.
Currently, he is working on a feature documentary which will air on US networks and continues traveling the world to wherever there is need for his craft.
大阪府出身。チャップマン大学の撮影コースを卒業後、撮影監督として国内外で幅広く活躍する。代表作品は2010年に公開したアメリカ、香港、フランス共同製作の「Strowberry Cliff」。この作品は釜山国際映画祭の「New Currents」賞にノミネート。また、2012年のVIVA Comet Awardsを受賞したポーランド人アーティストのDodaのミュージックビデオ『XXX』の撮影を担当。その後、爆発的にヒットしたビデオゲーム『バイオハザード』シリーズのデジタルDPに抜擢。特に『バイオハザード5」はビデオゲームとして初めて2009年の「アバター」でも使用されたライブモーショントラック機能を備えたバーチャルカメラで撮影。
現在米国のネットワークで放送予定の長編ドキュメンタリーを撮影中。