Emiko Omori

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

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 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.

Known For

Camera

2015
Ghost Town to Havana

as Director of Photography

2001
The Chinatown Files

as Director of Photography

1999
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena

as Director of Photography

1999
1999
Rabbit in the Moon

as Director of Photography

1994
Black Is… Black Ain’t

as Additional Photography

1993
The Great Depression

as Director of Photography

1990
Home from the Eastern Sea

as Director of Photography

1988
1988
Cowboy Poets

as Director of Photography

1984
The Times of Harvey Milk

as Additional Camera

Crew

2000
Rebels with a Cause

as Cinematography

1999
Regret to Inform

as Cinematography

1983

Producer