about

Edgewood Pictures, Inc. is an independent New York City-based motion picture company, the partnership of Risa Morimoto and Paul Griffin. We incorporated in 1997 with this idea: cost-effective film and video making for motion picture, television, and internet distribution is not only valuable but a lot of fun. We are a full service company. We commit to your project from conception. We help you develop your story. Our team builds your project brick by brick in production. We protect your vision through post-production and delivery. Whether it's a 30-second spot or a feature, your goal is ours. We get your idea out there on budget and on time. Making pictures is a collaborative effort. Twenty years of award-winning filmmaking have introduced us to creative geniuses. Teaming remarkable directors, writers, editors and producers with our clients is just the first step.

bios

RISA MORIMOTO (producer, director. editor)
produced and directed Wings of Defeat, a feature documentary on surviving Kamikaze pilots. The film has received international acclaim and aired on PBS' Emmy Award-winning program, Independent Lens in 2009. Wings of Defeat was awarded the 2009 Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians, 2008 Above and Beyond Award for Best Documentary from the Womens Film Critics Circle as well as several film festival awards. She produced the 35mm feature film, The LaMastas starring Lauren Velez in 1998 and produced and directed several short films including Moonlight Electric and 9066 with the late Pat Morita. Risa received three Telly Awards for her television work including Cinema AZN, an entertainment program on Asian film. In 2009, Risa was awarded a Japan Foundation research fellowship.

Risa received her Masters in film production and education from New York University in 1999 where she served as the Associate Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute. She was the Executive Director of Asian CineVision, a non-profit media arts organization in New York City from 2002-06. Risa lectures at universities, college and cultural institutions in the U.S. and Japan, and has served on numerous panels and committees including POV, NVR Media Fellowships (sponsored by Rockefeller and Ford Foundations), New York State Council on the Arts, IFP Project Involve, IFP Gotham Awards, and Tribeca All Access.

Outside of her work in film, she remains active in the Asian American community serving as an advisor for the Chinatown Youth Initiative and a member of JAJA (Japanese Americans, Japanese in America). She is a co-founder of APAYA, Asian Pacific American Youth Alliance.

PAUL GRIFFIN (writer, director)
Paul's novels for young adults, TEN MILE RIVER (2008), THE ORANGE HOUSES (2009), and BOO (forthcoming, Fall 2010) are published by Dial Books (division of Penguin Publishing). He produced, directed, acted in and wrote The LaMastas, starring Lauren Vélez (I Like It Like That, Oz) and Fred Norris (The Howard Stern Show). Paul graduated with highest honors from Dartmouth College with a BA in Film Studies. He started an MFA at Columbia University but left to work with at-risk kids in high schools and juvenile detention centers throughout NYC. He was an instructor at the New School University where he taught film production and screenwriting.

As a partner of Edgewood Pictures, Inc., Paul has written for television. He receives fellowship support from NYFA and NYSCA and is a three-time semi-finalist of the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Paul is a graduate of the NYPD Citizens Police Academy and a volunteer EMT with the Central Park Medical Unit in New York City.