Amber Fares is an Academy Award–nominated documentary director, producer, and cinematographer whose work explores power, identity, and political narratives through character-driven storytelling. Her latest film, Coexistence, My Ass!, premiered at Sundance 2025 and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Her directing credits include Speed Sisters (Hot Docs 2015), We Are Ayenda (Amazon, 2023), Reckoning with Laughter (Al Jazeera Witness, 2021), and Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021), which she co-directed. As a cinematographer and producer, she has worked on the Peabody Award–winning The Judge (PBS, 2017), the Sundance Special Jury Award–winning Life After, and the Academy Award–nominated short The Devil is Busy (HBO, 2025).She is a Sundance Momentum Fellow and Pillars Artist Fellow, and is based between New York and Montreal.