Emiko Omori

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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.

Filmography

• Murder in the High Desert (2024)
• Exquisite Moving Corpse (2022)
• Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio (2020)
• WTF? (2018)
• When Rabbit Left the Moon (2017)
• Ghost Town to Havana (2015)
• To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter (2012)
• Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World (2010)
• Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol (2009)
• Women Behind the Camera (2007)
• Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2007)
• The Chinatown Files (2001)
• Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest (2001)
• Rebels with a Cause (2000)
• Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena (1999)
• Regret to Inform (1999)
• Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena (1999)
• Rabbit in the Moon (1999)
• Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)
• Home from the Eastern Sea (1990)
• Slaying the Dragon (1988)
• Cowboy Poets (1988)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
• Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World (1983)
• Street Music (1981)
• Manongs Film Project (1979)