Born in Osaka in 1969. Filmmaker. Maeda presents his work, which spans across the mediums of video, media arts, and documentaries, at film festivals and exhibitions such as the Image Forum Festival, the Ebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. He actively plans exhibitions, collaborating with artists from theatre, art and other fields. He has been the supervising director of the DVD label SOL CHORD since 2005. His web movie project “BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW” won the Excellence Award in the Art Category of the Japan Media Arts Festival 2012. Maeda also won the 20th Keizo Saji Award (Suntory Foundation for the Arts) for the performance in which he directed the live stream, “MUSICA CRAS GIFU 2020 Masahiro Miwa Festival -Purified Night-” which was performed without an audience.