Emiko Omori Movies

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She...

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

The story of the hopes, rebellions, and repression of the 1960s, told by those who lived it - members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

Ed Hardy is emblazoned on clothing worn by Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger, on wine and dozens of other products. Now you'll meet the real...

CORPUS explores the mass adulation and explosive posthumous recognition of Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano rock singer murdered by the president of...

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life...

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

This is the story of one simple invention, the vibrator, and its relationship to one complex human behavior, the female orgasm.

A compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst beautiful images of...

This documentary covers the story of Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans in Washington state, from their first arrivals, to the...

Five Chicana cultural critics gather over a meal to discuss and debate the life, death, and legacy of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades....

The May’s Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and...

A collective, cinematic love letter to the elusive French filmmaker, Chris Marker; Emiko Omori's film captures the persona of the legendary and...

Created from footage and outtakes from Rabbit in the Moon. An elegy to her parents’ generation—the Issei (immigrants)—and the...

A highly critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...