Lara has a 25 year career working in broadcast television. She previously worked as a producer creating content for the ABC, National Geographic, MBC in Dubai and the creative agency BDA in London. She has directed over 70 short films including documentaries selected for Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Canberra Short Film Festival, Byron Bay International Film Festival and St Kilda Film Festival. She is the producer of the web-series Women of the Island (21 Festivals with multiple fest award wins). She was recently commissioned by the ABC to make the impact film Road Kill Warriors for the iView Your Planet series and was the editor for the Walkley finalist feature documentary Mary Meets Mohammad.