El Comercio, one of Peru’s most prominent newspapers, recently featured Okaeri: The Spy from the Rising Sun, describing the project as a landmark in the country’s cinematic landscape. The article underscores Okaeri as the first historical fiction film in Peru to center on the Nikkei community, bringing visibility to a chapter of national history that has long remained in the shadows. With a carefully constructed cinematic approach and a deeply human narrative, Okaeri explores

The project was selected to participate in the second group of the International Screenwriting Lab "LabGuion" organized by the Cinefilia Corporation in Colombia with the financial support of an Ibermedia Program scholarship. In 2024, Peruvian screenwriter and director Camila Murayama was selected to participate in the prestigious 12th edition of LabGuion, the International Screenwriting Lab organized by the Colombian organization Cinefilia and the Ibermedia Program. Chosen fr

The Nikkei project was one of the 13 winners of the National Feature Film Development Competition, organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. "Okaeri: the Spy of the Rising Sun" won a fund of 40,000 PEN for its development process thanks to the Peruvian Ministry of Culture's National Feature Film Development Competition initiative. The project was evaluated and selected unanimously by the jury, whose evaluation read as follows: "For addressing a family story marked by var

The project submitted as the writer and director's final thesis for the Master's Degree in Screenwriting at the International University of Valencia was approved with an outstanding grade. Below, the asbtrat of the paper. Abstrat This Master's Thesis delves deeply into the cinematic genre of based-on-true-events films. It analyzes the different nature, tools, and approaches used in crafting screenplays aimed to capture the essence of historical events and real-life experience

"Okaeri" is selected to participate with 11 other projects in the Feature Film Development Workshop organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The Ministry of Culture of Peru, through the Directorate of Audiovisual, Phonography and New Media (DAFO), organized a new edition of the “Feature Film Project Workshop” as part of the Conecta Service. This edition was exclusively aimed at Peruvian women filmmakers. The workshop’s objective was to strengthen the creative, narrative