Yoko Okumura is an award winning writer, director, producer and performer. Born in a Buddhist temple in Japan and raised in the frost bite of Minneapolis, Yoko now lives and works under the blazing sun of Los Angeles. She is the 1st place winner of the 2014 DGA Student Film Awards in the west region Asian American category for her AFI thesis film Kimi Kabuki. The film was also granted the Panavision New Filmmakers Program award. In addition, Yokos short 1:58am won the Jury award at the Seoul International Youth Film Festival and she also wrote/directed and performed in a well received docu/narrative short film George and Yoko which premiered at the St.Louis International Film Festival. Previous to AFI Yoko produced numerous music videos and short films. She also associate produced the Katie Couric documentary Fed Up which premiered at Sundance 2014 as well as the Silverdocs 2012 Best Feature winning documentary Only The Young. Yoko's feature script "The Religion of Girlfriends" is