Emiko Omori

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Directing

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Female

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Emiko Omori

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 wit...

Production

1988

1999

Regret to Inform

as Cinematography

1999

Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

as Director of Photography

2001

The Chinatown Files

as Director of Photography

1999

1999

1999

1990

Home from the Eastern Sea

as Director of Photography

1994

Black Is… Black Ain’t

as Additional Photography

2000

Rebels with a Cause

as Cinematography

2018

WTF?

as Director

1984

The Times of Harvey Milk

as Additional Camera

1999

1999

Rabbit in the Moon

as Director of Photography

2015

Ghost Town to Havana

as Director of Photography

1988

Cowboy Poets

as Director of Photography

1983

1981

Street Music

as Assistant Camera

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