Mauricio Osaki

Mauricio Osaki was born in Brazil, where he started his career directing short films and working in feature projects as assistant editor and post producer for major film companies.

He completed his MFA in Filmmaking at NYU Tisch. While at Tisch, Mauricio directed the award-winning film My Father’s Truck which premiered in the 63rd Berlinale Film Festival and was short-listed for an Oscar. In 2017, he lived in China where he worked in his NYU thesis a micro-budget feature film be shot in Beijing, while also developing the project My Father’s Truck (feature film) to be shot in Vietnam.

My Father’s Truck

LIM | Less is More 2017

Set in the countryside of Northern Vietnam, it’s a story of 10-year-old Mai Vy, who skips school one day to help her father run his truck taxi business. Mai Vy is soon confronted with shades of morality and some harsh realities as she learns how things, outside the classroom, really are.