[3] Obāchan's Garden also won five Leo Awards including Best Director for Ohama.
[4] Following the tsunami that hit Japan's Tohoku region in March 2011, Ohama began working on the documentary A New Moon over Tohoku (2016), that chronicled the tsunami and its effects.
[2][5] She has also directed the films The Last Harvest (1994),[6] Neighbors, and Wild Horses & Cowboys,[5] as well as two episodes of the documentary television series A Scattering of Seeds.
Ohama is principally a visual artist, whose work centres on her Japanese Canadian heritage.
[7] Ohama was born and raised in Rainier, Alberta on a potato farm.