I’m passionate about crafting messages and visual themes that contribute to a deeper insight into today’s culture. Specifically how we each rise to our unique calling within this global community - as individuals, organizations, and industries. Using film to convey as much through internal moments as through the visceral moments, my visual style unearths a grounded ethereal within the everyday human condition; one rich with emotional texture.

I find great joy in the collaborative process with my teams, and I am relentless in my pursuit of telling stories that matter - especially for brands and organizations who are committed to championing stories of purpose, connection and inspiration. Stories that inspire question-asking and conversations between people and industries around the world. Content that makes you feel something. 

BIO

Amara Untermeyer is a Texas-born, California-based commercial director, documentary filmmaker and video artist. In the past two years alone, Amara has directed commercials, global auto show and vehicle release films for CHEVY, LEXUS, FORD and BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, to name a few. She is one of a handful of female directors expanding the lens of the commercial automotive world, merging authentic humanity and lifestyle content with active vehicle running footage. Her experience ranges from directing investigative documentary projects in Haiti, Indonesia and El Salvador, working with human trafficking survivors and FBI heads, directing filming adventure programming for The History Channel, and creating online branding initiatives for Oracle, the American Youth Foundation and National Center for Healthy Housing. Amara’s sincere dedication to the human condition empowers her subjects, creating a rare level of honesty and intimacy on film. She was trusted to interview Human Rights Watch “Dictator hunter” Reed Brody and part of The Guardian UK video production crew for the breaking Wikileaks coverage.

In 2016, she returned to her home state of Texas to field direct the feature documentary, Generation Found, which chronicles a community's fight to save their children from a frightening resurgence of drug-related deaths. Amara beat out MTV, NBC News, ABC News and other filmmakers to gain access into this community, and over the course of two years, she spent over nine weeks immersed in America's largest sober high schools in Houston, TX, capturing the raw essence of teenagers battling addiction and loss on their way to recovery. Amara’s unique ability to assimilate and adapt to vastly diverse cultures and social situations has allowed her to become a true chameleon as a director and storyteller in the most varied of environments.

Formerly Amara developed + produced an adventure documentary television series alongside Executive Producer Viola Davis, entitled Woman Abroad, which has garnered interest from CNN Original Series, Huffington Post and BBC. Untermeyer is the creator and executive producer of the series. In addition to her commercial and documentary directing, Amara is passionate about her work in the video art and installation space. She recently wrapped a five week exhibition of AMATOR MONTUM, her single channel cinematic art installation she shot and directed, exploring spiritual and mystical meditations on mountain life in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.