She currently creates short-form documentaries for Carnegie Hall, and she is the co-director and DP of Flat Daddy, a feature documentary about military families coping with deployment. Nara’s work as a DP has appeared on HBO (Making the Crooked Straight) and PBS (NOW with Bill Moyers), and she won the Best Cinematography award in the 2008 Asian American Film Lab’s 72 Hour Film Shootout. Other recent camera credits include About Face (premiere: Hot Docs, 2009), Striking a Chord (filmed on military bases in Southern Iraq) and Best Kept Secret (AFI Docs 2013). She is currently directing a feature-length documentary about Braddock, PA.