Feature
Mudbound
"Mako displays a keen sense of rhythm and pacing,
apportioning the flow of imagery in carefully calibrated segments
that challenge the viewer.... The result is a visual orchestration
integrating quick-edit intensity and contemplative, elegiac tranquility
- a threnody in the key of vexed moral reflection."

- Carey Monserrate, Cross Currents

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Documentary
Witness: Libya

"Mako demonstrated qualities that I demand and value in filmmaking....
Her knowledge and experience in narrative filmmaking contributed
greatly to flesh out the emotional journey of our real-life characters."

- Michael Mann
Executive Producer of WITNESS

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Feature
Katya

"Mako Kamitsuna’s editing creating a kinetic sense
that plusses the otherwise spare action."

- Ronnie Scheib, Variety

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Documentary
We Are X

WE ARE X won 2016 Sundance Film Festival's
Special Jury Award for Best Editing.

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Mako IS A LOS ANGELES-BASED FILM EDITOR WORKing IN BOTH FICTION AND NON-FICTION GENRE.

she edited "MUDBOUND" which, after premiering at 2017 sundance film festival, went on to win four nominations for the 90th academy awards: "Best supporting actress," "best cinematography," "Best adapted screenplay" and "best original song." the film is CURRENTLY available on NETFLIX.

MAKO IS REPRESENTED BY WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR (WME) AND CIRCLE OF CONFUSION.

WESTWORLD nominated for ACE Eddie Award

Netflix's MUDBOUND Just Casually Broke 4 Records

WE ARE X wins 2016 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award in Best Editing

Mako Kamitsuna

Born in Houston, Texas, and hailed from Hiroshima, Japan, Mako is a graduate of Columbia University (BA Philosophy) and NYU Graduate Film Program (MFA Film). She is also an alumnae of AFI's Directing Workshop for Women (DWW).

Mako was chosen as one of 25 emerging filmmakers to participate in Toronto Int'l Film Festival's Talent Lab in 2012. Her short film THE LULL BREAKER was one of the "Top Five Finalists" at 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition sponsored by TIFF. Her other shorts are: SHE, WHO EXCELS IN SOLITUDE, a period drama about little known history of "Mercury 13" and KATYA, about a cold war nuclear disaster of a Soviet submarine K-129 in 1968. The feature-length version of KATYA is currently in active development.