Asako Gladsjo is a director, producer, and writer based in New York City. Her recent projects include Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest, a 6-part series for HBO, and The Calling, a feature documentary on medical students in the Bronx, for Tangled Bank and Cineflix. Earlier work includes Why We Hate, for Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney, and Discovery; (Un)Wellfor Netflix; the NAACP Image Award-winning series By Whatever Means Necessary, for Epix; the Emmy-nominated PBS special Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise; America by the Numbers for PBS; Soundtracks: Songs that Made History for CNN; and multiple series with Henry Louis Gates Jr. including The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which won Emmy, DuPont, Peabody, and NAACP Image awards, as well as multiple seasons of Finding Your Roots and African American Lives. Formerly based in Paris, Gladsjo has made documentaries on society, culture, race, and immigration for international broadcasters including Arte (Une Enfance Gay, Prier dans la Cité des Anges), BBC (Pandemonium), and France 2 (Peuples d’Ici, Français d’Ailleurs). She taught directing for 6 years in SVA’s Social Documentary MFA program.

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FILM

Sayonara Daddy-San

PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Documentary Lab

COHORT YEAR

2013

WEBSITE

imdb.com/name/nm0321616/

INSTAGRAM

@agladsjo