Japanese, Venezuelan (Indo and Afro Trinidadian and Spanish)
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Takeru V.

Basics

First Name Takeru V.
Last Name Maeda
Sex Male
I'm looking for....

what everyone else is looking for.

Age 25
Ethnicities Japanese, Venezuelan (Indo and Afro Trinidadian and Spanish)
Date of Birth March 6, 1986
Marital Status Single
Current Location Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC
Hometown New York City -- Hell's Kitchen, Astoria, Kips Bay
Describe Your Hapa-ness

My dad's Japanese--born n raised in Asahikawa City, Hokkaido--and my mother's Venezuelan/Trinidadian, born n raised in Valencia, Venezuela. They met in English school here in NYC. Then, BADA BING! Marriage. 

Quick Bio

 I'm a New Yorker livin in the big apple who wants to get into the film industry big time. I graduated from SVA with a BA in Film/Video and I have lots of goals. Traveling, Film, and Martial Arts are big joys in my life but I also have small joys too; reading, drawing, taking photos, writing in my journo, looking at old pictures, playing vid games (my inner geek), watching movies and so much more.

check out my Director's Reel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMiwcgCdfU

come check out my blog @ http://mrsubconsciouswrites.blogspot.com/

check out my thesis film on VIMEO:

http://www.vimeo.com/1178776

FUN FACTS (yay!)

- I study Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, and Muay Thai in Williamsburg, Brooklyn under professional MMA fighter, professor Roger Mamedov.

- I suck at pong. Not beer pong, the other pong.

- Many born and bred New Yorkers can't stand Chicago-style pizza but on the contrary--I do.

- NY Mets fan. We're talking Die hard.

- Fan of Manchester Utd. football club. "I'm Man U till I die! I'm Man U till I die! I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm Man U till I die!"  

- Big tennis fan of Svetlana Kuznetsova, Rafael Nadal, Dinara Safina, and Ai Sugiyama. 

- can't stand it when people chew with their mouths open. 

- Fan of the Hanshin Tigers professional Japanese baseball team. 

- Prefers to read the book after watching the movie. 

- fear of insects.

- fav authors are Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne, Camus, and Shakespeare. 

- Influential filmmakers (dead and alive) are Kubrick, Fellini, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Woody Allen, Takeshi Kitano, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Spike Lee, Chris Nolan, and David Fincher.

- Can never decide between onigiri and arepa. Way too hard. 

- for some reason, i take things personally. *shrugs* 

- wanted to be an astrologist when i was in middle school. 

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Education

Highest Level of Education Bachelor's Degree
Academic Experience

Salk School of Science (middle school)

Fiorello H. LaGuardia of Music & Art and Performing Arts (High School)

School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY - Bachelor's Deg. in Film/Video

Work

Occupation

writer/screenwriter/director/Assistant Video Editor

Work Experience

Screenwriter/Director 

On-set sound mixer/boom operator/Sound Designer

Freelance video Editor

Favorites

Favorite Movie(s)

Top Favs. and in no particular order.

 Taxi Driver. Fellini's 8 1/2. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. Ikiru. Le Notti Bianchi (White Nights). Pulp Fiction. Lost in Translation. Full Metal Jacket. Amelie. Seven Samurai. American Beauty. A Short Story About Love. 

Favorite Music

Coldplay. The Cure. Kanye West. Sean Paul. DJ Tiesto. John Coltrane. Duke Ellington. Miles Davis. The Killers. Ivy Queen. U2. The Police. The Strokes. Bob Dylan. Jimmi Hendrix. Ludwig Van Beethoven. Manu Chao. La Mala Rodriguez. The Hungry Marching Band. Aerosmith. Jay-Z. The Rolling Stones. Niki Belucci. The Temptations. Sounds for Your Hounds. Mozart. The Ramones (what new yorker wouldn't like em'?) Bo Diddley. Smashing Pumpkins. Daft Punk.

Favorite Food(s)

Japanese curry. Don't care if it's with beef or chicken. 

Favorite Book(s)

No Country for Old Men. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Andy Kaufman Revealed! Macbeth. Woody Allen on Woody Allen. Pourtney's Complaint. The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Stranger. Into The Wild. Hamlet. The Road. Fences. The Wall And Other Short Stories. No Surrender: My 30 Year War.

Interests
Baseball, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, walks in the park, Autumn, Computers, Cameras, DVD's, Films, podcasts, Tennis, Cycling, Drawing, Photography, Art Museums, Cinemas, galleries, Live Jazz, Karl Pilkington, Vintage posters (especially Coca Cola)

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