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Linda Ohama is a
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artist and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2001 film '' Obāchan's Garden.''


Career

Ohama's first feature-length documentary was '' Obāchan's Garden'', released in 2001''.'' The film centred on Ohama's grandmother, Asayo Murakami, and was partly filmed in
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. It was a
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nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2001. ''Obāchan's Garden'' also won five
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including Best Director for Ohama. 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. She has also directed the films ''The Last Harvest'' (1994),Bonnie Malleck, "Love and loss on the farm; Daughter chronicles her Alberta family's struggles". ''
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'', March 24, 1994.
''Neighbors'', and ''Wild Horses & Cowboys'', 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
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heritage."Burnaby Art Gallery marks Asian Heritage Month"
'' Burnaby Now'', May 8, 2014.


Personal life

Ohama was born and raised in Rainier,
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on a potato farm. Her family lost the farm in the 1990s.


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