TOMOYA SUZUKI

Tomoya Suzuki is founder and CEO of STORIES®, a joint venture between Hakuhodo DY and SEGA. With offices in Tokyo and Los Angeles, it produces film and TV based on Japanese IP, commercials and branded entertainment. STORIES® represents more than forty creators from Hollywood and Japan with backgrounds in filmed entertainment and expertise in branded content. It has produced over two hundred branded content and music videos, including J.W. Marriott’s Two Bellmen and Namie Amuro’s ‘Anything’. Tomoya has created the Subaru branded entertainment campaign Your story with, with 20 episodes of ninety-second story-based commercials and regular TV dramas based on the spot as well as a hit novel based on the commercials. He’s currently developping Feature films and TV dramas based on Japanese IP in Hollywood. He is a graduate of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program. Cannes Lions Entertainment Jury 2017 Spikes Asia Entertainment Jury 2018 [The Art of Branded Entertainment (Peter Owen Publising:2018)] [Branded Entertainment: Advertising, which you even want to pay to watch it. (Senden Kaigi Publishing 2020)] WelcometoSTORIES.com