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