Rika Ohara
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Rika Ohara was a manga artist before she studied painting and photography; her MFA thesis production at California Institute of the Arts was a dance-theater adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" featuring dancer/choreographer Tracy Rhoades as a gender-defying Herodias. She has a 40-year history of producing and touring with her publicly-funded media-and-theatre pieces. In the early 2000s, Ohara exhibited videodance installations at Monaco Dance Forum, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, NewMoves Festival, Glasgow, and began showing short films at international film festivals. Her first feature film The Heart of No Place won the Best Film award at London Independent Film Festival (2010). The Giaour is her seventh feature-length narrative.
