Patrick Dickinson is a British/Irish writer & director. He studied Japanese cinema at Oxford University and Waseda University, Tokyo, and was mentored by the late film critic & historian Donald Richie. Shortly after living in Japan, he studied Directing at the AFI Conservatory, where he shot a number of shorts including 2011’s SOON, 2012’s FATHER and his thesis film USAGI-SAN (2013), which won the BAFTA US Special Jury award, screened at 30 festivals internationally, and is the only European winner of a Student Emmy for Drama. In 2014 he attended the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab, where he directed the Japanese short OKYO MONOGATARI with Toei Kyoto Studio. He then worked as television series producer/executive producer for BBC and Netflix. COTTONTAIL (2023), inspired by his personal stories in both Japan and England, is his feature-length directorial debut.
