Peter Hyoguchi recently completed his fourth feature film "The Occult", a supernatural thriller which was shot using a mixture of traditional and virtual production techniques.
Raised in Los Angeles by his mother, an animator at Hanna-Barbera Studios ("Scooby Doo" and "The Flintstones"), Peter learned the craft of visual story-telling in the home and was creating his own cartoons by age ten. At fifteen, his sci-fi short, “The Future’s Future” won George Lucas’ youth film festival in 1988 and aired on PBS. Hyoguchi dropped out of high school after being awarded an art grant to direct his first feature film, an adaptation of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre at age seventeen.
In his early twenties, Peter signed with an agent and started taking on writing assignments, including adapting a New York Times best-selling novel called "Shooting Elvis" and co-writing "The Waking" with sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury for director John Carpenter. In 2001, he won Best Feature Film at both New York and San Francisco Independent Film Festivals for "First, Last and Deposit" which he wrote, shot and directed. The film has aired on IFC and Netflix.
In 2012, Hyoguchi founded Roninfilm which created animation and VFX for SyFy Channel, including "Lavalantula", "Spiders 3D" and the sci-fi pilot "The New Kind". Hyoguchi directed the first Super Bowl spot to utilize virtual production in 2021. He is a two-time recipient of the Epic MegaGrant for “Gods of Mars” which pioneered a photo-real virtual production pipeline with a team of Unreal Engine game designers and Oscar-winning visual effects artists whose credits include “Return of the Jedi”, “X-Men”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Batman”, “The Dark Crystal” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”.
Peter has taught filmmaking at UCLA Film and TV Extension, New York Film Academy, The Academy of Art University and FIDM.
In 2025, Hyoguchi launched an online masterclass on DIY theatrical distribution called CineRoad. Currently he is touring America screening "The Occult" in selected theaters.
Raised in Los Angeles by his mother, an animator at Hanna-Barbera Studios ("Scooby Doo" and "The Flintstones"), Peter learned the craft of visual story-telling in the home and was creating his own cartoons by age ten. At fifteen, his sci-fi short, “The Future’s Future” won George Lucas’ youth film festival in 1988 and aired on PBS. Hyoguchi dropped out of high school after being awarded an art grant to direct his first feature film, an adaptation of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre at age seventeen.
In his early twenties, Peter signed with an agent and started taking on writing assignments, including adapting a New York Times best-selling novel called "Shooting Elvis" and co-writing "The Waking" with sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury for director John Carpenter. In 2001, he won Best Feature Film at both New York and San Francisco Independent Film Festivals for "First, Last and Deposit" which he wrote, shot and directed. The film has aired on IFC and Netflix.
In 2012, Hyoguchi founded Roninfilm which created animation and VFX for SyFy Channel, including "Lavalantula", "Spiders 3D" and the sci-fi pilot "The New Kind". Hyoguchi directed the first Super Bowl spot to utilize virtual production in 2021. He is a two-time recipient of the Epic MegaGrant for “Gods of Mars” which pioneered a photo-real virtual production pipeline with a team of Unreal Engine game designers and Oscar-winning visual effects artists whose credits include “Return of the Jedi”, “X-Men”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Batman”, “The Dark Crystal” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”.
Peter has taught filmmaking at UCLA Film and TV Extension, New York Film Academy, The Academy of Art University and FIDM.
In 2025, Hyoguchi launched an online masterclass on DIY theatrical distribution called CineRoad. Currently he is touring America screening "The Occult" in selected theaters.
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Super Bowl Spot
director: Peter Hyoguchi
GOOGLE MEET
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HONDA
director: Peter Hyoguchi
director: Peter Hyoguchi
DINNER AT LE CRUEL
co-writer, producer, director: Peter Hyoguchi
EDDIE BRAVO & THE HEMP CONSPIRACY
producer, co-director: Peter Hyoguchi
ENHANCED INTERROGATION
producer, co-director: Peter Hyoguchi
TROUBLE AT NAKED BIKE RIDE
writer, director, editor, producer: Peter Hyoguchi
DR. MARK CHENG PROMO
director, camera: Peter Hyoguchi
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ALL IN
writer / director: Peter Hyoguchi
LANDSCAPES OF PEPPERWOOD
director, camera, editor: Peter Hyoguchi
GODS OF MARS
director / producer: Peter Hyoguchi
director / producer: Peter Hyoguchi