Tokyo-based filmmaker and photographer HASEGAWA Yokna is the creative force
behind the Japanese Year Zero Trilogy, a series of science fiction films that imagine the Japan of the near future. Emerging from a concept
that she first started to formulate around 2012,the first part of the trilogy-illuminations-came out in 2014. HASEGAWA then made
DUAL CITY (2015), the second installment in the series, with the support of the Cineastes Organization Osaka (CO2). HASEGAWA has earned numerous accolades over the course of her career, including an Honorable Mention Award at the 2013 Canon New Cosmos of Photography (as Yokna Patofa) and critical
recognition for DUAL CITY– which earned a Nippon Visions Jury Award Special Mention
at the 2016 Nippon Connection Awards and a nomination in the Feature Film Section at the Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2016.