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We Are Ayenda

Directed by Amber Fares

WE ARE AYENDA is a true story on WhatsApp

  • ABOUT
  • BIO
  • AWARDS
  • CREDITS
  • GALLERY

Genre

Synopsis

As the Taliban claimed power in 2021 and banned women and girls from participating in sports, the members of the Afghanistan Youth Women’s National Football Team needed to escape their own country or risk being captured. What happened next is an extraordinary story of survival, sisterhood and the human right to privacy. Presented by WhatsApp.

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 Brand Storytelling 2024 - Best Director

Clio Awards 2024 - Silver Winner

Branded Entertainment Film 2023 - One Screen Award

Credits

Cinematographer - Daisy Zhou

Producer - Amanda Naseem

Editor - Ashley Rodholm