Clara was born 1991 in Bucharest and went on to study Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna, where she attained her Bachelor degree by researching magic and divination in Southern Romania. As an exchange student she studied anthropology, video and film in Mexico City. While at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, she conducted part of her research with the Jamaican community of Moss Side, Manchester and graduated with The Good Day a short film on marital agency in Moldova that won several prizes, as well as Best Film at the Ekaterinburg Student Festival of Anthropological Film. She now lives and workes in Poland, working on her next film on rehabilitation from addiction and studying as part of the Wajda Film School's documentary film programm.