naz kawakami
Film:
Every Day in Kaimuki (2022, dir. Alika Tengan, narrative feature)
Sundance Film Festival (Next Innovator Award Nominee)
Bentonville Film Festival (Best Narrative Film)
writer
lead actor
producer
I Think I’m Here (2024, dir. Mattias Evangalista, short documentary)
Brooklyn Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
writer
supporting cast
producer
Team Average Japan (2024, dir. Kai Neville, short)
writer
producer
Podcast:
Naz wrote, produced, and hosted seventeen episodes of Analog to Digital: 20 Years of Culture and Change, a podcast that celebrated Monster Children Magazine’s twentieth anniversary with a series of conversations centered around the evolution of the cultures of skate, surf, art, and music, from the burgeoning digital age of 2003 to the post-digital 2023. Notable guests included Spike Jonze, Ishod Wair, Mike Mills, Leo Fitzpatrick, Naquan Rollings, and Greg Hunt.
Editorial:
Naz Kawakami has been a professional journalist since 2013. He has had worked published in platforms like NPR, Rolling Stone, MSNBC, Business Insider, Flux, Vice, and Jenkem, among others.
Naz is in his second year as Editor in Chief of Monster Children, a Sydney/LA/NYC-based skate/music/surf/art/travel publication founded in 2003.
He is currently open to editorial and scripting commissions. Contact him, here.