She has been making films for more than 20 years, and as both a writer and filmmaker is passionately committed to documenting the experience of Aboriginal women in Canada. Women in the Shadows, a one-hour documentary about her search for her Métis foremothers, was named Best Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Its companion film, Keepers of the Fire, is a tribute to Aboriginal women's resistance and earned her the honor of being name co-recipient of the first Alanis Obomsawin Award for outstanding achievement in the Aboriginal Film Industry as well as winning the National Film Board's Kathleen Shannon Award for Best Documentary.