Directing
Amber Fares
EN, AR cinema · 8 credits
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.
Known for
Filmography
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director, Producer, Cinematography
Life After
Director of Photography
The Devil Is Busy
Producer, Director of Photography
We Are Ayenda
Director
Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
Co-Director
Boycott
Director of Photography
The Judge
Cinematography
Speed Sisters
Director, Producer, Director of Photography