Christopher Makoto Yogi

Christopher Makoto Yogi is an American filmmaker from Hawai‘i., best known for his feature films August at Akiko's and I Was a Simple Man, which premiered at major international film festivals and received critical recognition.

Career

Yogi’s debut feature film, August at Akiko’s, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2018 and received positive reviews. The film stars Alex Zhang Hungtai and was released theatrically by Factory25. It was listed among “The Best Films of 2019” by Richard Brody in The New Yorker
His subsequent feature, I Was a Simple Man, starring Constance Wu, premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The project participated in the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and was released theatrically by Strand Releasing. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, the Made in Hawai‘i Award at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival, and was listed as the fourth-best film of 2021 by The New Yorker
Yogi’s experimental work has screened at Museum of Modern Art and Flaherty NYC. His short films include Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai‘i and Obake .