Yoko Okumura

Yoko Okumura

As a writer and director, Yoko Okumura’’s short films have screened at Los Angeles Film Festival, St.Louis International Film Festival, Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, and her film, 1:58AM, won the Jury Award at the Seoul International Youth Film Festival. She was associate-producer on the feature length documentary, ONLY THE YOUNG, which won Best Feature 2012 at Silverdocs and the Young American Audience Award 2012 at AFI Fest, and is now distributed by Oscilloscope. Yoko graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Film/Video.