Steven Okazaki — A three-time Academy Award nominee and an Oscar winner in 1991 for DAYS
OF WAITING, director Steven Okazaki looks at troubling social issues and the lives of ordinary
people caught up in extraordinary historical events. His 20-year relationship with the Sundance
Film Festival spans from his 1987 romantic comedy, LIVING ON TOKYO TIME ,to last year’s WHITE
LIGHT/BLACK RAIN, a powerful look at the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Okazaki
has produced some of television’s groundbreaking documentaries including Unfinished Business
