Ten Thousand Hometowns is a production company founded in 2020 by Mariko Munro, who’s worked at the intersection of film and fine art for over a decade. Film and artworks produced by Mariko have been programed at the Sundance Film Festival (NEXT 2013, Documentary Competition 2023), New York Film Festival (2024), MoMA’s Doc Fortnight (2023 and 2025), CPH Docs (2023), BAM Cinema Festival (2016), The Whitney Biennial of American Art (2014) and The Berlin Biennial (2021). In 2016 Mariko was nominated for an Emmy Award for her video “The Amazing Song - Sesame and Autism” a part of Sesame Workshop’s Autism Initiative.
Munro is currently in post production for a major video installation by artist Stan Douglas and is in production on a documentary feature directed by Mishka Brown.
Select works:
Producer, Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. 2023 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Competition, Doc Fortnight Museum of Modern Art, CPH:DOX.
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.
Producer, Co-Director American Milkshake. 2013 Sundance Film Festival, NEXT.
Producer/Director for Sesame Workshop - How Much Toothpaste; Starting Early; This Is How I Grow; We Are All Amazing, (Emmy Nominated.)
Line Producer/ Production Manager at Story Syndicate working on documentary features and series for HBO, Apple TV+, Netflix.
Emily Sundblad’s Whitney Biennial work False True Love, Mandy Harris Williams’s Couture Critique, Nikita Gale’s Takers exhibited at LAXART, Cauleen Smith’s Wanda Coleman Songbook .