Amanda was a Producer and Assistant Director for the independent feature film Nasumice (Adrift) directed by Caleb Burdeau. Nasumice premiered at the Sarajevo Film Fest in 2018 and went on to show in film festivals all around the world. The film won Best Feature Film at the Tripoli Film Festival in Lebanon in 2019. Filmed on location in Venice, Rome, and the countryside of Puglia, the minimal crew used creative and effective means to produce a visually stunning film despite the modest budget available. Capturing the essence of the three locations was of upmost importance as was highlighting the four languages spoken in the film. Local non-actors working alongside the professional cast provided a level of authenticity that would have been otherwise impossible to achieve. Amanda managed the budget and schedule from pre-production to final release including the crowdfunding program that initially kickstarted the project with funds.

Synopsis: Italy, 1994. The war in the Balkans drags on with no end in sight. Elvis, a young man from Sarajevo, is taking pictures of tourists with his Polaroid camera to get by. Winter closes in, bringing fewer tourists, and Elvis shifts his efforts from Venice to Rome in search of an income. After his camera is stolen, Elvis, not knowing what to do with himself, decides to visit Rodolfo, a stranger met by chance in Venice. Elvis finds Rodolfo living with his parents on a derelict farm in Puglia, in the south of Italy. Their brief and lonely encounter unfolds in the timeless landscape of white washed towns, greenh ills and olive trees of southern Italy.