Hiroyasu Ishida was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1988. While attending his local art school, he began to produce animation. He went on to study manga at Kyoto Seika University’s animation school in the department of manga. His 2009 self-produced short film Fumiko’s Confession was his first production and won several awards. He followed this with his 2011 graduation work, Rain Town. For these two works he won the Ministry of Culture’s Media Arts Festival Animation Award across two consecutive years. In 2013, he made his theatrical debut with Hinata no Aoshigure, which he directed, wrote and animated. It again won an award at the Ministry of Culture’s Media Arts Festival. In 2013 he created Paulette’s Chair for Fuji TV’s animation showcase, noitaminA. In 2018, Ishida made his feature film debut with Penguin Highway, based on Tomihiko Morimi’s 2010 novel of the same name, which is also his first APSA nomination.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
