Born in Milwaukee, WI. American documentary filmmaker, currently living in Tokyo. His first film, HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA (1987), was a portrait of Japanese atomic-bomb artists Maruki Iri and Toshi. Coproduced with John W. Dower, the film was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival. This was followed by a Siglo production, UMINCHU: THE OLD MAN AND THE EAST CHINA SEA (1993), which portrayed the life of an 81 year-old marlin fisherman on a small Okinawan island. Junkerman directed the Emmy® award-winning DREAM WINDOW: REFLECTIONS ON THE JAPANESE GARDEN (1992), produced by the Smithsonian. He also produced and directed "The Mississippi: River of Song," a four-part Smithsonian series for PBS about American roots music along the Mississippi, broadcast in 1999. He directed and edited POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES (2002). This was followed in 2003 by the video release of NOAM CHOMSKY: DISTORTED MORALITY. Junkerman was a field producer for NANKING (2007), which made the short list of documentaries considered for that year's Academy Award®.  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1987: HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA - Producer (w. John W. Dower) 1 nomination