Megumi Sasaki(I)

In 2008, Filmmaker Megumi Sasaki directed and produced her first feature-length documentary Herb & Dorothy (2008), about the legendary New York art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel. The film went on to win top honors at many international film festivals and was released theatrically nationwide and as a part of PBS's Independent Lens series. In 2013, Megumi completed the highly anticipated follow-up Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (2013), focusing on the next (and final) chapter in the lives of the beloved couple. The film had a nationwide theatrical release and continues to screen in theaters, museums and art fairs around the globe.

A Whale of a Tale (2016) is her third feature-length and had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea and has won awards in many other festivals worldwide. In August 2017, Sasaki published her first book with the same title of the film in Okujirasama: Futatsu no seigi no monogatari (2017) depicting behind the scenes of the film's production and the in-depth historical and religious background information of the whaling controversy that won the Science Journalist Award in 2018.