Meet the Team

JUN KUROMIYA and DANIEL LEWINSTEIN are award-winning filmmakers who grew up in Boston, where they made short films together as children. In high school, they made a feature-length film adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye, which fortunately has not been shown publicly. They have enjoyed collaborating ever since. In 2024, they formed Cedar Edge Films, named after the small Colorado town where they developed some of their work.

MORNING ON THE LAKE is Jun and Daniel’s first feature film project. In 2024, it was selected by the Stowe Story Labs Producing Program.

In addition, Cedar Edge Films is currently producing a documentary about animal rehabilitation programs within the US prison system.

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    Growing up, Jun split his summers between Hamamatsu, with his Japanese grandparents, and Willsboro, NY, with his American grandparents. He graduated from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in philosophy and then embarked on a journey to train in Zen Buddhism while making short films. His work has won awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival. He has also screened his work in museums and galleries internationally, most recently at the CICA Museum in South Korea.


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    Since graduating from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Daniel has worked primarily as an editor. He has had the opportunity to work on several high-profile documentaries, and his work has screened at festivals internationally, including the Cannes International Film Week and the Brussels Independent Film Festival. In 2022 he was selected for the D5in10 program, sponsored by Droga5.