Coexistence, My Ass!
Director and Producer Amber Fares, Producer Rachel Leah Jones
Logline
Coexistence, My Ass! follows activist-turned-comedian Noam Shuster as she lives and stages her one-woman show. While Israel moves further to the right, violence intensifies throughout the land, and democracy comes undone, Noam uses potent political humor to fight for justice and equality for everyone—one joke at a time.
Amber Fares - Director and Producer
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), Gutsy ep5 (AppleTV, 2022), Reckoning With Laughter (AJ Witness, 2021), Convergence (Netflix, 2021), America Inside Out with Katie Couric (National Geographic, 2018), and the Peabody-winning The Judge (PBS, 2017) which she co-produced and filmed. A Sundance Momentum Fellow and Sundance Editing and Story Lab Fellow, Amber is a Canadian of Lebanese origin currently based in New York.
Rachel Leah Jones - Producer
A critically acclaimed award-winning documentary filmmaker, Rachel is a two-time Sundance alumna best known for her films Advocate (2019), which won an Emmy for Best Documentary and was shortlisted for the Oscars; Gypsy Day (Sundance, 2012); Ashkenaz (2007); and 500 Dunham on the Moon (Human Rights Watch, 2002). Rachel, currently based in Tel Aviv, is both American and Israeli and speaks English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
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