Born in Torrance, California, Rich Hama has achieved recognition as a Director of Photography in feature films, commercials, music videos and documentaries. Regardless of the type of project his goal as a Director of Photography is to create powerful images that are truthful to the story.

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He is currently in production on an IMAX feature length documentary  by award winning director Miko Lim.  Rich is concurrently working closely with Academy award nominated Producer Diane Quon (Minding the Gap) on a feature length documentary directed by Eugene Yi (Free Sol Cho Lee).

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