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Ripe for Change
7:33 min
Documentary
Director: Emiko Omori
Producer: Jed Riffe, Emiko Omori
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Jed Riffe, Producer
Jed Riffe has been independently producing documentary films for broadcast on public television in the US (PBS), and Japan (NHK) since 1975. Riffe is best known as the Producer and Director of the award-winning dramatic documentary Ishi, the Last Yahi, which enjoyed a 14-month limited theatrical release prior to its broadcast on The American Experience. Riffe’s other independently produced public television documentaries include Who Owns the Past? on PBS’ INDEPENDENT LENS; Shut Up Sit Down and Listen for NHK-TV in Japan; and Rosebud to Dallas and Promise and Practice for regional broadcast on KERA-TV and KUSD-TV. Between 1999 and 2003, Riffe produced three HDTV programs in France, Brazil and the US. He most recently completed post-production on Waiting to Inhale, the first documentary to examine the national conflict over the legalization of cannabis for medicinal uses. Over the last thirty years, Riffe has produced a number of commercial and independent films, web sites, and interactive programs. He has a film, HDTV, and new media production company in Berkeley, California where he resides.
Emiko Omori, Producer and Director
Emiko Omori is a highly regarded cinematographer, writer, and director. At the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, she won the Best Documentary Cinematography Award for two films: her own, Rabbit In The Moon, (also the recipient of a National EMMY) and Barbara Sonneborn’s Academy Award nominated Regret To Inform. Omori was Director and Writer of Hot Summer Winds, AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE and KCET; and The Departure, a short narrative film. She was Series Producer for Pacific Diaries, a production of Pacific Islanders in Communications; Producer/Director for Tattoo City, a documentary on the art of Japanese-style tattooing; and Producer/Director for Skin Stories, broadcast on PBS. Omori’s current project, The Technology of Orgasm, is in production for an early 2006 release.
Ripe For Change is part of the series California and the American Dream. Visit their website to learn more.
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