Chihiro Wimbush is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. He is a former Bay Area Video Coalition MediaMaker Fellow, Sundance Creative Producing Institute Fellow, Big Tell storyteller, and an alumni of the Alliance for Media Arts + Culture’s HatchLab program. Chihiro is currently a member of the Alliance Unlocking Creativity Community of Practice which is focused on convening and supporting collaborations between organizations and media artists providing career training for current and formerly incarcerated individuals and justice-impacted youth. Chihiro co-directed/co-produced and filmed the documentary feature Dogtown Redemption, following the lives of homeless recyclers in West Oakland and edited the award-winning documentary feature Changing Season about four generations of a Japanese-American peach farming family fighting prejudice in the Central Valley of California. Chihiro served as editor for former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on his trilogy of award-winning filmsThe Ride, Defender, and most recently Ricochet, which he also co-directed/produced after Jeff’s passing during production. Chihiro’s current project in development, Release, was selected for the IF/Then Shorts x Redford Center Nature Connection Pitch at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.