Mariko Munro is a director and producer working at the intersection of art and film.
Current work in production: Producer, Bury Me Standing (working title), documentary feature directed by Mishka Brown.
Currently in development: Producer, God Bless the Child, documentary feature directed by Christopher Harris.
Producer, Stan Douglas’s Birth of a Nation 2025, on view at the Hessel Museum at Bard Collage, a New York Times Critic Pick.
Producer, Cauleen Smith’s The Deep West Assembly, 2024 New York Film Festival Currents section, 2025 Doc Fortnight at Museum of Modern Art New York NY, and the 2025 BlackStar Film Festival.
Producer, Cauleen Smith’s multichannel video installation The Wanda Coleman Songbook, exhibition at 52 Walker, New York NY in 2024.
Producer, Amanda Kim’s Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, 2023 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Competition, Doc Fortnight Museum of Modern Art, CPH:DOX, PBS American Masters, Netflix, Mubi.
Producer, Nikita Gale’s TAKERS exhibited at LAXART in 2022.
Director, What’s Cooking America? with Kim Gordon, 2020 Pitchfork, Dazed, Rolling Stone, Artforum.
Director/Producer for Sesame Workshop including How Much Toothpaste; Starting Early; This Is How I Grow; We Are All Amazing, (Emmy Nominated,) as well as various short format on-location films incorporated in seasons 47 through 54 of Sesame Street.
Director, False True Love produced in collaboration with Emily Sundblad for the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Director/Producer American Milkshake. 2013 Sundance Film Festival NEXT program, Atlanta Film Festival, distributed by Kevin Smith’s Movie Club, Phase4.
From 2020 to 2024 Mariko was Line Producer/ Production Manager at Story Syndicate working on documentary features and series for HBO, Apple TV+, Netflix.