The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.
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.
