His 2014
National Film Board of Canada short film
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer won the Best Canadian Short Film award at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named to the festival's year-end
Canada's Top Ten list of the year's ten best Canadian shorts. It also won awards for Best Short Film at the
Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Best Experimental Short Film at both the New York Short Film Festival and
LA Shorts Fest, and Best Cinematography at the Berlin International Short Film Festival. In 2015, he was selected by
Piers Handling as the recipient of a pay-it-forward grant from the
Toronto Film Critics Association toward the production of a future film, following Handling's win of the organization's
Clyde Gilmour Award. His feature directorial debut,
The Lockpicker, was released in 2016, and received the
John Dunning Discovery Award at the
5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2016, Best First Feature at the 2016 Reel Asian Film Festival, and Best Narrative Feature at the 2016 West Virginia International Film Festival. In 2016,
Be Here Now, an interactive multimedia installation made from feathers, wood, wire, and interactive sound and light, was part of an exhibition of artworks at the Robert Kananaj Gallery, and a part of a group exhibition at the
Art Gallery of Ontario.
The Book of Distance is a room-scale virtual reality experience written and directed by Okita, which premiered at the
2020 Sundance Film Festival. Its subsequent screenings included the
2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Animation in the Immersed program, and the
2020 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it won the Horizons award. His film
See for Me premiered at the 2021
Tribeca Film Festival. Okita directed the upcoming film
Menace. In 2024 he had an acting role in
Alexander Carson's mockumentary film
Alberta Number One. == Filmography ==