Emiko Omori
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
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)
2015
- Ghost Town to Havana ... (Director of Photography)
2012
- To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter as Narrator (voice)
2010
- Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World ... (Director)
2009
- Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol as Narrator (voice)
2007
- Women Behind the Camera as Self
- Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm ... (Director)
2001
- Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest ... (Thanks)
- The Chinatown Files ... (Director of Photography)
2000
- Rebels with a Cause ... (Cinematography)
1999
- Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena ... (Director of Photography)
- Rabbit in the Moon ... (Producer)
- Regret to Inform ... (Cinematography)
- Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena ... (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)
- Cowboy Poets ... (Director of Photography)
1984
- The Times of Harvey Milk ... (Additional Camera)
1983
- Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World ... (Cinematography)
1981
- Street Music ... (Assistant Camera)