One Blue Marble for filmmaker Emiko Omori, who got super excited about the awesome out-of-this-world images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, perfect imagery for depicting the beginnings of life in “The Cosmos” for the 2024 production of Brenda Wong Aoki’s “Soul of The City.”

Emiko Omori began her career as a filmmaker and cinematographer in 1968, when there were few camerawomen and fewer still Asian American cinematographers. Her first job was as camera/editor on the KQED program, Newsroom, in San Francisco. She left KQED in 1972 and, since then, has freelanced as a producer, director, cinematographer, and editor on many award-winning films, taught, and traveled extensively with her work in addition to making her own films. Her Emmy Award-winning documentary "Rabbit in the Moon" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

In addition to filming the live performance of Brenda Wong Aoki’s story of one family’s 127 years in San Francisco, this was Omori’s first outing as the director of a live theatrical production.

“Soul of the City 2024” was performed on Saturday June 1st at 7pm and Sunday, June 2nd at 4pm at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, CA.