Sam Lara

Sam Lara is a director known for Laura's Choice (2020), Featherweight (2019) and Monsters As Friends (2017). Sam has been directing short films, music videos and factual content for the past 10 years. Her directing work has been nominated for a Dendy Award at Sydney Film Festival, and at St Kilda Film Festival, Flickerfest International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival, where she was selected to participate in MIFF's 2019 Accelerator Lab. She holds a Bachelor of Film and Television from Bond University and works in the West Australian film industry as an assistant director on long form productions. In 2020 she began serving as the West Australian chapter head of the Australian Director's Guild.