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.

Recent producing work includes Nam June Paik Moon is the Oldest TV, which premiered in documentary competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and CPH:Docs and was released on PBS before streaming on Netflix and Mubi. In 2024 Munro produced Cauleen Smith’s The Deep West Assembly, an experimental documentary about extraction, erasure, exile and the liberation from the legacy of colonialism directed Cauleen Smith and programed at New York Film Festival, MoMA DocFortnight, and BlackStar Film Festival. Mariko’s second project with Stan Douglas, Birth of a Nation, is a five channel video artwork that reimagines a pivotal sequence from the racist epic and is currently on view at Bard’s Hessel Museum and was a New York Times Critics Pick.

Films Munro produced have been programmed in the Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, CPH Docs, BAM Cinema Festival, Whitney Biennial, Berlin Biennial, Atlanta Film Festival and distributed by PBS, NETFLIX, Mubi, AppleTV+, HBO MAX, Artforum online and the New Yorker, and 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.

Mariko’s work with artists include producing motion picture artworks works for Cauleen Smith, Stan Douglas, Nikita Gale, and Mandy Harris Williams among others.

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.

Mariko is currently in development with Christopher Harris on his first autobiographical feature documentary.