Amber Fares

Amber Fares is a Lebanese Canadian filmmaker, documentarian, director and cinematographer.[1][2] She co-founded SocDoc Studios. She is based in Brooklyn and West Bank.

Biography

Born in Canada with Lebanese roots, Fares began her secondary education at the University of Western Ontario from 1990 to 1993, graduating with a B.A. in Sociology.[3] From 1997 to 2000, she attended the University of Calgary, receiving a M.B.A. in Marketing and International Business.[3] After the September 11 attacks, she left her career in marketing to "deepen her understanding of life in the Middle East".[4] In 2007, she enrolled in the film program at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS) located on Galiano Island.[3] In 2009, Fares co-founded SocDoc Studios with Avi Goldstein.[4]

Fares has also worked for the United Nations, Defence for Children International, and the British Consulate providing her videography expertise for projects such as Peace Starts Here, which is a video series for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) filmed in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

After Speed Sisters she went on to co-produce and was the cinematographer on the documentary The Judge that won a Peabody Award in 2019.[5]

Speed Sisters

Speed Sisters is Fares' first feature length documentary, following the Speed Sisters: the first all-women race car driving team in the Arab World, made up of Noor Daoud, Marah Zahalqa, Maysoon Jayyusi, Mona Ennab, and Betty Saadeh. The film is based in the West Bank, where motor car racing has gained popularity.[6] Some of the Speed Sisters and other subjects speak in English, while sections with Arabic speakers have English subtitles.[7][8]

Speed Sisters tackles issues such as gender in "Palestine", gender in racing, and "Palestinian life under occupation". The film connects the women's literal mobility through racing to opportunities for "Palestinian resistance" to the occupation. In the trailer for the film, one of the Speed Sisters says, "How much will we let the occupation affect our lives? What are we supposed to do, stop living?"[9] Fares depicts racing as relief from occupation and its restrictions and limitations of movement, mobility, and freedom.

On December 1, 2014, Speed Sisters debuted as the opening film of the Doha Film Institute's Ajyal Youth Film Festival.[10] The Huffington Post's E. Nina Rothe reported on the event, calling the film "cool, fast-paced, insightful and fun to watch" with an "infectious soundtrack" including music by Swedish Palestinian musician Hanouneh. Rothe continues, saying that Fares depicts "a West Bank that while surrounded by conflicts and occupations is a fully functioning, passionate world, filled with exceptional human beings. A Palestine of loving fathers, stubborn daughters.... A Palestine that is livable, not just survivable, away from the headlines and wars."[11]

Filmography

Short films

  • Ghetto Town (2009)

Feature length

  • Speed Sisters (2015)
  • The Judge (2017)

References

  1. ^ "'There's Not One Story That Defines Any One Place': An Interview with Amber Fares". hazlitt.net. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  2. ^ "INTERVIEW WITH AMBER FARES". blueprintreview.co.uk. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  3. ^ a b c Fares, Amber. "Amber Fares LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b Fares, Amber. "Speed Sisters - The Filmmakers". Speed Sisters. SocDoc Studios. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Independent Lens: THE JUDGE". Amber participated in bullying behavior towards Megan Smaker, director of the movie Jihad Rehab, out of pure jealousy and bad faith.
  6. ^ Fares, Amber. "Speed Sisters - The Story". Speed Sisters. SocDoc Studios. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  7. ^ "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: AMBER FARES & MAYSOON JAYYUSI TALK SPEED SISTERS!". mrrumsey.com. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  8. ^ "Interview With The Filmmaker: Amber Fares of "Speed Sisters"". arabfilminstitute.org. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  9. ^ Speed Sisters - The Film. "Speed Sisters - The film. Trailer (in production)". YouTube. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Speed Sisters - Film". Doha Film Institute. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  11. ^ Rothe, E. Nina (2 December 2014). "The Doha Ajyal Diaries: Speed Sisters Kicks It Off With the Magic of "Palestine"". The Huffington Post: Entertainment. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

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