Risa Morimoto

Risa Morimoto is a documentary director and producer for film, television and digital media, and president of Edgewood Pictures. Her award-winning film Wings of Defeat, about surviving kamikaze pilots — a project that began when she learned her own uncle had been one — aired nationally on Independent Lens and screened in more than eighteen countries.

She produced Spies of Mississippi for Independent Lens and directed Broken Harmony, on human rights activists and internet censorship in China, along with short documentaries including Cambodia/Cambodian America and After the Darkness, about young people rebuilding after the tsunami in northern Japan. She has also directed and produced well over a hundred episodes of unscripted television for HGTV, Animal Planet and A&E.

A second-generation Japanese American, she was a fellow of the PBS/WGBH Academy and of Firelight Media's Producers Lab, served as executive director of Asian CineVision, and holds a master's degree in film and education from New York University.