Jun Oshima

Background

About Jun Oshima

Jun worked in advertising for 6 years at Tokyo Advertising and JWT before coming to New York City. Then he studied film production and media theory at The New School’s Masters in Media Studies and Film program. He worked as a cinematographer on the 2009 Adobe Achievement Award and 2010 Student Academy Award-winning project, SURFACE FILM. As a professional filmmaker, Jun's projects have included corporate commercials, documentaries, independent fiction, TV shows, Music Videos and more. Jun's extensive client list includes Google Creative Lab, Facebook, LVMH, Sony, Christian Dior, Shiseido, Vanity Fair Magazine, MoMA Design Store, and Conde Nast, where he has had the distinct pleasure of working with and film international icons such as Keith Richards, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Busta Rhymes. Jun directed and shot TV documentary for NHK (Japanese National Public Broadcasting) on the 14 time Grammy nominee Jazz pianist/composer Toshiko Akiyoshi in 2016, recently he produced and directed a short documentary film on architect Jun Aoki and Louis Vuitton for LVMH. Jun has been teaching at The New School and Parsons School for Design since 2013, and became a visiting associate professor at DHU in Tokyo in 2019.