Petra is a self-taught writer-director.​Her micro-short film, There Must Be Land on the Other Side, won the Share Her Journey Prize, awarded by BAFTA winner Amma Asante, at Toronto International Film Festival's TIFFxInstagram section and screened at 35. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and the 2019 BFI Future Film Festival. Her short film script, Monster in my Bed, is a 2020 Scout Film Festival Emerging Filmmakers Grant Finalist and honourable Mention. Petra's feature script in development, Hell and Heaven, has been selected to Camerimage 2019 Talent Demo, 2020 Junior Entertainment Talent Slate and 2020 FEST New Directors/New Films Festival Pitching Forum where the project won the Jury's Mentorship Award. ​She is currently developing two feature-length projects.