Amber is an award-winning filmmaker and has received grant and residency support for her work, most notably, she is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2025 Creative Capital Awardee. Over the past 10 years, she has directed eight short films and one feature film, all of which have screened widely and internationally in film festivals, museums, galleries, and university classrooms. Her films have won awards at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and New Orleans Film Festival among others. Her films are streaming on the Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, and Kanopy, and distributed by Pragda Latin Cinema (100 Ways to Cross the Border), Collectif Jeune Cinema (Tell Me When You Die Trilogy), Vtape (Short films), Video Data Bank (Open is Opening), and Kino Lorber (When the Iron Bird Flies). Currently, she is in production on Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bears Ville, her second feature length film.