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 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
- Directing
Known for
- The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) — Additional Camera
- Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995) — Additional Photography
- American Playhouse (1982) — Director
- Regret to Inform (1999) — Director of Photography
- Women Behind the Camera (2007) — Self
- Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2007) — Director
- Street Music (1981) — Assistant Camera
- Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World (2010) — Director
- Rabbit in the Moon (1999) — Producer
- Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest (2001) — Thanks
- To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter (2012) — Narrator (voice)
- Slaying the Dragon (1988) — Other
- Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena (1999) — Director of Photography
- Rebels with a Cause (2000) — Cinematography
- Cowboy Poets (1988) — Director of Photography
- Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World (1983) — Cinematography