[3] There she made her first documentary film, Tiny Red Universe (2007), serving as screenwriter, producer and lead actor.
[5] The film documents the effects of the 2011 Joplin tornado, an EF5 storm that destroyed a quarter of the city and caused about $2.8 billion worth of damage.
[3][10] The film features several aspects of the recovery effort, such as the Joplin Found Photos project,[11] which returned thousands of scattered photographs to tornado survivors.
[13] In 2014, Tremblay released In the Turn, a documentary film that revolves around Crystal, a ten-year-old transgender girl from Timmins, Ontario.
[14] Tremblay had originally gained Kickstarter funding for her conception of the film as a documentary to profile the Vagine Regime, "a queer roller derby collective".