Yuriko Gamo Romer
Director/Producer, Flying Carp Productions
Yuriko Gamo Romer began her career in advertising and is now an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker. Her newly released documentary Baseball Behind Barbed Wire just won the Best Short Documentary award at the Chandler International Film Festival. It is about the WWII Japanese American incarceration told through the lens of baseball. She is currently in post-production with the accompanying feature documentary Diamond Diplomacy, about US Japan relations through a shared love of baseball. Her previous film, Mrs. Judo, about Keiko Fukuda (1913-2013) the first woman to attain tenth-degree black belt in judo, traveled to over 25 film festivals internationally and was awarded the Best Documentary Grand Jury Award at the 2013 International Festival of Sport Films, Moscow and broadcast nationally on PBS. Romer was born in Japan and raised in the United States. She holds M.A. in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University, where she was a teaching fellow, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Scholar and awarded a Student Academy Award, Gold Medal.
