Amara is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, writer, and artist continually seeking ways to meld science and creativity. A 2018 graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts for Film & Television (with a minor in Molecular & Cell Biology, no less), she has written and directed numerous projects ranging from documentaries to narrative short films, as well as music videos and promotional content. She has also worked in a variety of environments, from MIT’s Robot Locomotion lab to the Documentary Unit at CNN, as well as freelancing as an artist, graphic designer, copywriter, and camera assistant.
Amara currently works as a video editor at BBC Studios in New York, where she edits promotional content for the Creative & Brand team with a strong focus on FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channels. In her free time, she’s always writing, and aside from screenplays, Amara is working on her first novel and will soon be seeking literary representation.
In 2019, Amara was awarded the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music in Film and the Todd Martin Film Production Award for her thesis film, In Suspension. The film was also awarded the Parsec Award for Best Script at the 2020 Other Worlds Austin Film Festival, Best Sci Fi Short at the 2021 Next Generation Indie Film Awards, and Best Sci Fi Short at the 2022 Cannes Short Film Festival. The film has been picked up by DUST and streams free from Jan 12, 2022.
She was also the winner of the 2019 ScreenCraft Sci Fi Screenplay Concept Competition, and a semifinalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci Fi Short Screenplay Competition for the In Suspension short film script.
