Known For
Directing
Known Credits
3
Gender
Female
Birthday
Birthday not available
Place of Birth
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.
| 2024 | Murder in the High Desert...Director | |
| 2022 | Exquisite Moving Corpse...Director | |
| 2020 | Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio...Director | |
| 2018 | WTF?...Director | |
| 2017 | When Rabbit Left the Moon...Director | |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Director | |
| 2010 | Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World...Director | |
| 2007 | Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm...Director | |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon...Director | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse...Director | |
| 1979 | Manongs Film Project...Director |
| 2015 | Ghost Town to Havana...Director of Photography | |
| 2001 | The Chinatown Files...Director of Photography | |
| 1999 | Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena...Director of Photography | |
| 1999 | Regret to Inform...Director of Photography | |
| 1999 | Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena...Director of Photography | |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon...Director of Photography | |
| 1995 | Black Is… Black Ain’t...Additional Photography | |
| 1993 | The Great Depression...Director of Photography | |
| 1990 | Home from the Eastern Sea...Director of Photography | |
| 1988 | Slaying the Dragon...Other | |
| 1988 | Cowboy Poets...Director of Photography | |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk...Additional Camera | |
| 1981 | Street Music...Assistant Camera |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Producer | |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon...Producer |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter...Editor | |
| 1999 | Rabbit in the Moon...Editor | |
| 1990 | Home from the Eastern Sea...Editor |
| 2001 | Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest...Thanks | |
| 2000 | Rebels with a Cause...Cinematography | |
| 1983 | Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World...Cinematography |
| 1982 | American Playhouse...Writer |
| 2012 | To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letteras Narrator (voice) | |
| 2009 | Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbolas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2007 | Women Behind the Cameraas Self |