Ashi Films Independent Films

“BOZE” 2019

Within the Tokara archipelago lies the remote Japanese island of Akuseki-Jima, or rather “Evil Rock Island”. Home to 83 residents, and one mysterious creature called BOZE, this is a community unlike any others in Japan, one that accepts all that arrives from the sea, even a lost boy.

Cast: Koki Hisanaga, Kazunori Arikawa, Miyo Hisanaga

Director: Fuyuko Mochizuki, DP: John Enos Producer, Producer: Yusaku Kanagawa, Editor: Fuyuko Mochizuki, Sound Mixer: Rob Mayes

Year: 2019 Runtime: 14 minutes 25 seconds

“In The Eyes Of Children” 2016

Inspired on our visit to Ritsona Refugee Camp, Greece during the summer of 2016.

Over the past few years, many documentaries have been made about the refugee crisis and the refugees in Greece. We had a desire to make a documentary that told the story from a new perspective. We feel that although it’s too overwhelming to consider our lives as refugees, perhaps we could relate to how it feels to help someone in need and how that experience enriches our lives.

Made on a shoestring budget, our documentary focuses on the life and work of a middle aged Greek photographer who found his own identity by becoming an integral part of the refugees lives in the camp near his home by initiating a Tuesday movie night for the children.

Vassilis Nikas, a Greek photographer who has made it his priority to replace despair with hope and smiles by being true to not only his own core beliefs but all of ours.

The summer of 2021 our film will be playing at Lieu d’Europe, in companion with an expansive exhibition of Vassilis Nikas photography from the refugee camp.