His debut as a professional cinematographer was in 2003 with Maurizio Fiume's full feature E io ti seguo (I Will Follow You), a selection at the Montreal World Film Festival.
In 2004, Amura worked with Luca Guadagnino on Cuoco contadino (Farmer Chef), and the following year he was involved in the making of Melissa P..
In 2010, Amura worked on Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Draquila – L'Italia che trema, Alessandro Aronadio's Due vite per caso (One Life, Maybe Two), and Paola Randi's Into Paradiso.
His list of collaborations with Italian film directors also includes Nina Di Maio, Volfango De Biasi, and Serafino Murri.
Since 2007, Amura has been working on a photographic live-performance project, StopEmotion, now developed by Emoticron as a special software to live-edit real-time videos from sequences of pictures played to music.