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Emiko Omori

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
3

Gender
Female

Birthday
Birthday not available

Place of Birth

Emiko Omori

Biography

Emiko Omori has traveled the globe for more than 30 years as a cinematographer for many award-winning documentaries. Omori taught filmmaking in California and Hawai‘i and was the San Francisco Bay Area's first Asian American female news cameraperson. Omori has produced several nationally acclaimed documentaries including: Tattoo City, a documentary about the art of Japanese-style full body tattooing by artist D.E. Hardy; Hot Summer Winds, a drama based on two short stories by Nisei writer Hisaye Yamamoto that was showcased on American Playhouse; Rabbit in the Moon, a feature-length documentary that combines the internees' powerful stories with evocative images resulting in a film that is part documentary, part memoir and part essay. Rabbit in the Moon was broadcast on P.O.V. and received the Best Documentary Cinematography Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and won an Emmy.

Known For

Directing

2024Murder in the High Desert...Director
2022Exquisite Moving Corpse...Director
2020Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio...Director
2018WTF?...Director
2017When Rabbit Left the Moon...Director
2012To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Director
2010Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World...Director
2007Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm...Director
1999Rabbit in the Moon...Director
1982American Playhouse...Director
1979Manongs Film Project...Director

Camera

2015Ghost Town to Havana...Director of Photography
2001The Chinatown Files...Director of Photography
1999Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena...Director of Photography
1999Regret to Inform...Director of Photography
1999Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena...Director of Photography
1999Rabbit in the Moon...Director of Photography
1995Black Is… Black Ain’t...Additional Photography
1993The Great Depression...Director of Photography
1990Home from the Eastern Sea...Director of Photography
1988Slaying the Dragon...Other
1988Cowboy Poets...Director of Photography
1984The Times of Harvey Milk...Additional Camera
1981Street Music...Assistant Camera

Production

2012To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Producer
1999Rabbit in the Moon...Producer

Editing

2012To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Editor
1999Rabbit in the Moon...Editor
1990Home from the Eastern Sea...Editor

Crew

2001Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest...Thanks
2000Rebels with a Cause...Cinematography
1983Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World...Cinematography

Writing

1982American Playhouse...Writer

Acting

2012To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letteras Narrator (voice)
2009Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbolas Narrator (voice)
2007Women Behind the Cameraas Self