Amber Fares

An award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her directing debut SPEED SISTERS (HotDocs, 2015), which aired internationally on Netflix, Al Jazeera, and RAI, her subsequent credits include WE ARE AYENDA (WhatsApp/Amazon) which won a Grand Prix and 2 Gold awards at Cannes and the Best Director Award at the Sundance Brand Storytelling conference. She also directed an episode of GUTSY (AppleTV, 2022), RECKONING WITH LAUGHTER (AJ Witness), was a co-director on CONVERGENCE: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix). She was a Supervising Producer on an episode of AMERICA INSIDE OUT with KATIE COURIC (National Geographic), and a Co-Producer and Cinematographer on the Peabody-winning THE JUDGE (PBS). Amber was a Sundance Momentum Fellow and Sundance Editing and Story Lab Fellow, and is based in New York.