Hama-Brown first attracted attention for her short film titled Broken Bunny, which won the Sea to Sky Award at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival.[3]
Her music video for Alaskan Tapes's song "And, We Disappear" was nominated for the Prism Prize in 2020.[4]
In 2022, her performance as Maddie in the film Be Still, for which she won the Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Motion Picture.[5]
Her full-length feature film debut, Seagrass, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival,[1] winning the FIPRESCI Prize.[2] The film, starring Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Chris Pang, Sarah Gadon, and Nyha Huang Breitkreuz, among others, also screened at the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[6] the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival,[7] and the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival, winning Outstanding Canadian Feature Film at Cinéfest.[8] For her work on Seagrass, she also won several Vancouver Film Critics Awards including Best British Columbia Film, Best British Columbia Director, and Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film.[9]