Amber Fares
Lebanese Canadian filmmaker · Directors
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).
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Coexistence, My Ass!Film, Director, Producer2024
The Devil Is BusyFilm, Producer2023
We Are AyendaFilm, Director2021
Convergence: Courage in a CrisisFilm, Director2015
Speed SistersFilm, Director, Producer1901BornPeople around Amber
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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.
