Directing Awards —
Webby Award
British Arrow
London Int’l Awards
Creative Circle Awards
Ciclope
Kinsale Shark
The APA Show
Vimeo Staff Pick
Cannes Young Director Awards
Anim’est Int’l Animation Festival
Bahamas Int’l Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
+more
Directing Client List —
Katy Perry
Starbucks
Minecraft (Microsoft)
Google & YouTube
Whole Foods
FedEx
National Geographic
Wilkinson Sword (Schick)
Lowe’s Hardware
Lenovo
They Might Be Giants
Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley
+more
Cannes Young Director Award winner Hoku Uchiyama is a lover of fantasy films, horror and animation. His directing work has garnered tens of millions of online views and has been screened in festivals in the US, Europe and Asia. The work has also been featured at the LA County Museum of Art and in a series produced by the Modern Art museum Centre Pompidou of Paris.
Hoku broke ground with his award winning music video for Jason Webley and Amanda Palmer’s “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?” He and his sometimes directing partner, Adam Bolt, have made a name crafting high energy, fun, technical commercials under the moniker “Hoku & Adam.” Their clients include Starbucks, Google, Lenovo and FedEx. They’ve also created award winning spots for National Geographic, Wilkinson Sword (by animating facial hair) and YouTube (using 18 styles of animation in one film).
Their 2020 music video for Katy Perry’s “Harleys in Hawai’i” won the Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Music Video.
Hoku also directed the 2014 documentary “Upaj: Improvise” which was broadcast nationally in the US on PBS World.
Currently he’s developing “Third Floor”; a horror series, “The Good Sister”; a horror-fantasy feature and “Vicarious”; a sci-fi feature.