Shinomiya Yoshitoshi was born in Japan in 1980. He is a director and artist who contributed to the art and special scene direction for Makoto Shinkai′s Your Name (2016). He engages in a diverse range of creative activities across music videos, commercials, book design, painting, and sculpture. A New Dawn is his debut feature film as a director, which was invited to the Competition section of the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Contrechamp Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
