Amber Fares
Award winning director/cinematographer

ABOUT

Amber Fares is an award-winning documentary director, producer and cinematographer. Her recent projects include AMERICA INSIDE OUT WITH KATIE COURIC (National Geographic 2018, Senior Producer/Cinematographer), TRANSPARENT (Amazon 2017, Associate Producer) and THE JUDGE (TIFF 2017, Cinematographer/Co-Producer). She also Directed, Produced and filmed Sundance supported SPEED SISTERS (Hot Docs 2015, Netflix) which the New York Times called "SUBTLY REBELLIOUS AND DEFIANTLY OPTIMISTIC". Amber's films have won numbers awards and have played in film festivals around the world, including TIFF, Sheffield, Hot Docs, IDFA, CPH:Dox and Doc NYC. Her work has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, ALLURE, Amazon, Hulu, PBS and National Geographic.  Amber was a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow, 2014 Sundance Catalyst participant, and 2014 Sundance Institute Edit and Story Lab.

Amber is currently working as a freelance cinematographer and director and is developing a narrative comedy series.

ACCOLADES

Emmy Nomination - Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2022)

Sundance Humanities Fellowship (2022)

Hot Docs Deal Maker (2021)

Athena Pitch Forum (2021)

IFP Project Forum (2021 + 2019)

Sundance Momentum Fellow (2018/2019)

Peabody Award - The Judge (2018)

Emmy Nomination - The Judge (2018)

Sportel Awards, Monaco Peace and Sport Documentary Prize (2016)

Irish Film Institute Doc Fest Audience Award for Best Feature (2016)

Vail Film Festival Best Documentary (2016)

Adelaide Film Festival Jury Award for Best Documentary (2015)

CMCA PriMed Youth Jury Award (2015)

Sundance Catalyst (2014)

Sundance Story and Edit Lab (2014)

GoodPitch London (2013)

TedxWomenBarcelona (2013)

Sundance Fellowship (2012)

Sheffield Meet Market (2012)

About

 
 

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.

AWARDS

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression, Sundance 2025

Golden Alexander Award for Best Documentary, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Human Rights in Motion Award, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

CDS Filmmaker Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Grand Prix Bank Millennium Award, Millennium Docs Against Gravity

Cannes Lion Grand Prix - Entertainment

Cannes Lion Gold - Entertainment: Non-Fiction Film: 5-30 Minutes

Cannes Lion Gold - Entertainment Lions in Sport: Film Series and Audio

Cannes Lion Bronze Entertainment Lions in Sport: Brand Storytelling

Sundance Brand Storytelling - Best Director

One Screen Short Film Festival - Best in Genre

AICP Award - Branded Content & Entertainment: Standalone

AICP Award - Post: Docu-Style

D&AD Awards - Non-Scripted Long Form

Peabody Award for “The Judge”

Sportel Awards, Monaco - Peace and Sport Documentary Prize

Irish Film Institute Doc Fest - Audience Award for Best Feature

Adelaide Film Festival - Jury Award for Best Documentary

Vail Film Festival - Best Documentary

CMCA PriMed - Youth Jury Award (Prix Averroès Junior),

Fellowships/Labs

Pillars Fund Artist Fellowship (2024/2025)

IDFA Rough Cut Presentation - (winner) (2023)

Hot Docs Deal Maker (2021)

Sundance/Women in Film Finance and Strategy Intensive (2020)

IFP Project Forum (2019 + 2021)

Sundance Momentum Fellow (2018/2019)

Sundance Catalyst (2014)

Sundance Story and Edit Lab (2014)

GoodPitch London (2013)

TedxWomenBarcelona (2013)

Sundance Fellowship (2012)

Sheffield Meet Market (2012)