Mika Yatsuhashi grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland. She moved to Montréal in 2017 to attend the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University and graduated in 2021 with a BFA in film production. In 2020, she won the Mel Hoppenheim Award for Outstanding Achievement. She has a passion for exploring documentary film, identity, and American history, as well as working with archival material. Her film, An Uninterrupted View of the Sea is her first to be released nationally and internationally, with screenings at HotDocs (Toronto), Rendez-Vous Quebec Cinema (Montreal), the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Museum (Washington, DC), and more.