Film
Narrative
fullstop, 2024 (9m)
When Liv — the star of her middle school soccer team and its only girl — gets her period in the middle of a game, she and her best friends must find a way for her to get pad so she can keep playing.
Camara co-wrote and co-directed this short that is currently in post-production. For updates, follow @fullstop.film.
AMMA, 2019 (20m)
In her first year at a predominantly-white institution, a Black girl must contend with all the forces making her feel invisible: her classmates, her roommate, and a sinister new AI technology piloted in her classroom. This film was made possible through Yale’s Schutack Award and screened as part of the Yale Student Film Festival in 2020.
Camara wrote and directed this short.
Near Fiction, 2017 (7m)
After a near-meet cute with her seminar crush, a romantic Black girl imagines how differently the encounter could have gone if she were white.
Camara wrote, directed and co-edited this short for Claudia Rankine’s Constructions of Whiteness course.
Documentary
The Fight of Our Lives, 2024 (w/t)
A theatrical documentary that tells the intertwined stories of three charismatic — and effective —environmental justice leaders who are taking on the powerful Oil and Gas industry.... and scoring victories.
Camara served as a production researcher on this film: conducting & disseminating relevant research; collecting & logging archival research; assisting the producer during shoots, both in-person and remotely; and drafting grant and festival applications.
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, 2022
A feature documentary looking at the former congresswoman's courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment, aphasia.
Camara served as the office production assistant on this film, assisting with fact-checking and archival research.
ALN Remembers: J. Raymond Jones, 2023
A short explainer video revealing the little-known history of J Raymond Jones, the first Black leader of the famed Democratic machine Tammany Hall and its last.
Camara served as an associate writer and research on this short, co-produced by ALN and Storyville Films.