Amber Fares
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
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Amber Fares
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.
Known For
Crew
(2025)
Life After
Cinematography
(2025)
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director, Producer, Cinematography
(2023)
We Are Ayenda
Director
(2021)
Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
Co-Director
(2021)
Boycott
Director of Photography
(2020)
And She Could Be Next
Field Director
(2017)
The Judge
Cinematography
(2015)
Speed Sisters
Director, Producer, Director of Photography