Chie Hayakawa

Chie Hayakawa (born August 20, 1976) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter based in Tokyo.

Personal life and education
Hayakawa graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts in 2001. Her various early short films were screened at the school's gallery and film festivals. She gave birth to two children in New York and returned to Tokyo in 2008.

Film career
In Tokyo, she enrolled in a one-year film program at a night school whilst working. Her thesis film, Niagara, was selected for the screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, and won the Grand Prix at the Pia Film Festival.

In 2022, her first feature film Plan 75, won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.