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Emiko Omori
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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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Women Behind the Camera
To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
Slaying the Dragon
Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
Exquisite Moving Corpse
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
The Chinatown Files
Rabbit in the Moon
Home from the Eastern Sea
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest
Rebels with a Cause
WTF?
The Times of Harvey Milk
When Rabbit Left the Moon
Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena