Mariko Munro is an independent filmmaker.

In 2020 she founded TEN THOUSAND HOMETOWNS, a production company focused on collaborating with artists making motion picture art works. Ten Thousand Hometowns’ recent projects include producing Stan Douglas’s Birth of a Nation which was included in Douglas’s survey retrospective at Bard’s Hessel Museum, Cauleen Smith’s Deep West Assembly exhibited first at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo Norway before making it’s US debut at the 2024 New York Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, and Black Star Film Festival, and Cauleen Smith’s 2023 video installation The Wanda Coleman Songbook. Ten Thousand Hometowns has also produced work by Nikita Gale and Mandy Harris Williams.

In the documentary space Mariko Munro produced Nam June Paik Moon is the Oldest TV which premiered in documentary competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:Docs, and was released on PBS American Masters before streaming on Netflix and Mubi. From 2020 to 2024 Munro was a Line Producer and Production Manager for Story Syndicate where she worked on documentary features and series for Apple TV+, NETFLIX, and HBO.

Since 2022 Munro has been lead producer on a documentary feature following curator Hamza Walker as he mounts an exhibition of decommissioned Confederate Monuments at MOCA Los Angeles directed by Mishka Brown.