Filmmaker
Koji Masutani '05 is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute. His main area of interest is global media. He is director of Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, a film produced by Professor James Blight, Adjunct Professor janet Lang, University of Toronto Professor David A. Welch, and Peter O. Almond, producer of the film Thirteen Days.
A film associated with the Global Media Project, Virtual JFK shows
the transition between Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
and the difference the two presidents made in the conduct and eventual
escalation of the war in Vietnam.
As a Brown student, Masutani also produced, wrote, and directed The Japanese Textbook Controversy: Through the Eyes of the Next Generation, shown at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, among other film festivals; Ward No. 6, shown at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; and Bobby Goodfella, selected for the 2003 Ivy League Film Festival.
Masutani
holds a BA from Brown University in international relations. He also
studied Japanese, film, and literature at the Stanford University Kyoto
Center for Japanese Studies and attended the New York University Tisch
School of Drama/Atlantic Theater Company.
