Ottawa has directed several short films. In 2007 Elle et Moi was screened at numerous festivals including the First Peoples’ Festival in Montreal, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, and Festival Planète Honnête in France. Ottawa traveled with Wapikoni director Manon Barbeau to show her latest two films, Tonsure and Small Pleasures, to Guaraní people in Brazil and Paraguay, and to filmmakers from the Mapuche community in Chile. Ottawa is a native of Manawan in northern Quebec.