Linda Ohama is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2001 film Obāchan's Garden.
Ohama's first feature-length documentary was Obāchan's Garden, released in 2001. The film centred on Ohama's grandmother, Asayo Murakami,[1] and was partly filmed in Onomichi.[2] It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2001.[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. She spent over two years filming the project.[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.[7] Her family lost the farm in the 1990s.[5]