Emiko Omori

Emiko Omori

Known For: Directing

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.

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Castings

Slaying the Dragon
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Regret to Inform
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
The Chinatown Files
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest
Rebels with a Cause
The Times of Harvey Milk
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena
Cowboy Poets
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World