biography

Amber Fares is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose latest feature, Coexistence, My Ass!, won the Special Grand Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. She is also the director of the Cannes Lion Grand Prix–winning branded short We Are Ayenda (Amazon, 2023) and the Netflix debut Speed Sisters (2015). Her other directing credits include Gutsy Ep. 5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning with Laughter (Al Jazeera’s Witness, 2021), and Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). As a cinematographer and co-producer, Amber worked on The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2025), Life After (Sundance 2025), Just Vision’s Boycott (2021), and the Peabody Award–winning The Judge (PBS, 2017). A Sundance Momentum and Pillars Artist Fellow, she is Canadian and currently based in New York.