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Synopsis
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows activist-turned-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she writes, lives, and stages her one-woman show (of the same name) about racism, sexism, war, peace, and… her ass.
But one devastating day, everything she’s ever fought for suddenly came unraveled and coexistence now seems like an impossible dream. Can Noam continue to stand in solidarity with Palestinians while picking up the pieces of her own community?
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! navigates the serious terrain of Middle East peace (or lack thereof) with a healthy dose of humor offering an entirely new perspective on the struggle for justice and equality in the most divided land in the world — one joke at a time.
Bio
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 (Amazon, 2023) which won the Best Director at the Sundance Brand Storytelling conference 2024. She also directed an episode of GUTSY (AppleTV, 2022), RECKONING WITH LAUGHTER (AJ Witness, 2021), was a co-director on CONVERGENCE: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). She was a Supervising Producer on an episode of AMERICA INSIDE OUT with KATIE COURIC (National Geographic, 2018), and a Co-Producer and Cinematographer on the Peabody-winning THE JUDGE (PBS, 2017). Amber was a Sundance Momentum Fellow and Sundance Editing and Story Lab Fellow, and is based in New York.
Awards History
Sundance Humanities 2022 - Fellowship
Sundance/WIF 2021 - Financing Intensive
Credits
Producer - Rachel Leah Jones
Editor - Rabab Haj Yahya
Cinematographer - Phillip Bellaiche
Executive Producer - Ina Fichman
