Corey Ohama

Corey Ohama is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in West Marin and the Bay Area. Her films “Double Solitaire” and “I Was Born in Mexico, But…” tell stories of Japanese American incarceration and growing up undocumented in America. She has edited the award-winning documentaries “Going on 13”, “New Generation Queens”, “Love Boat: Taiwan”, and “The Dawn is Too Far”. She is currently editing “We Go Down Sewing”. Her work has been shown on the PBS series Independent Lens, PBS Online Short Film Festival, and at SXSW, Tribeca, LAFF, DOC-NYC, and CAAMFest. Corey holds a B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Film from San Francisco State University. At Mesa, Corey edited her documentary film about her Japanese American relatives during WWII.