Chiemi Karasawa's guest appearances

Chiemi Karasawa

Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel

The Red Room Podcast

Quentin Tarantino

Ashton Applewhite

Ricky Gervais

David Letterman

Darin Morgan

Stephen King

David Lynch

Brett Martin

Stephen Tobolowsky

Jack O'Brien

Kimmy Schmidt

Matt Zoller Seitz

Sonoko Sakai

Elaine Stritch

David Marchese

OwlTail

If you’ve seen Chiemi Karasawa’s award-winning film “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” you already know that Chiemi is a great storyteller. (If you haven’t, put it at the top of your streaming queue!) Chiemi's story is one filled with magic, mettle and a very healthy dose of hilarity. She landed one amazing job after another upon graduating from college: as script supervisor for lauded directors like Spike Jonze, Jim Jarmusch, Stephen Frears and Martin Scorsese, and then as an independent filmmaker and producer at Isotope Films, the company she founded in 2007. We were delighted by Chiemi’s “industry” stories, moved by her narration of her family's experience in and after the WW II Japanese American internment camps, and spellbound by her brief encounter with on-line dating, leading to her first marriage at 50 this past June. Chiemi likens herself to a “pioneer woman” in how she makes her way through life without a roadmap, on her own terms and relying on the cycle of giving with generosity and receiving with deep gratitude that fuels “sacred reciprocity.

If you’ve seen Chiemi Karasawa’s award-winning film “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elaine-Stritch-Shoot-Me/dp/B00L2GGHVC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me</a>,” you already know that Chiemi is a great storyteller. (If you haven’t, put it at the top of your streaming queue!) Chiemi's story is one filled with magic, mettle and a very healthy dose of hilarity. She landed one amazing job after another upon graduating from college: as script supervisor for lauded directors like Spike Jonze, Jim Jarmusch, Stephen Frears and Martin Scorsese, and then as an independent filmmaker and producer at <a href="http://isotopefilms.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isotope Films</a>, the company she founded in 2007. We were delighted by Chiemi’s “industry” stories, moved by her narration of her family's experience in and after the WW II Japanese American internment camps, and spellbound by her brief encounter with on-line dating, leading to her first marriage at 50 this past June. Chiemi likens herself to a “pioneer woman” in how she makes her way through life without a roadmap, on her own terms and relying on the cycle of giving with generosity and receiving with deep gratitude that fuels “sacred reciprocity.

SO5 Episode 07: Chiemi Karasawa – Finding the Power in Sacred Reciprocity

Scott interviews Chiemi Karasawa the director of the Documentary Elaine Stritch Shoot Me.  We discuss how this Documentary was made and why Elaine gravitates to Sondheim music. We discuss her piano player Rob Bowman and the people that shape Elaine's life. #Chiemi Karasawa #Elainestritch, #sondheim

73 Elaine Stritch Shoot Me Director Chiemi Karasawa Interview