Dogwoof jumps in the driver’s seat with Amber Fares’s exciting new documentary feature SPEED SISTERS. Speed Sisters - directed and produced by Amber Fares, produced by Avi Goldstein and Jessica Devaney - is the exhilarating, high speed story of the first all-woman car racing team in the Middle East.
Speed Sisters made its International Premiere at Toronto Hot Docs and European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest. The next screening will be at the beginning of August at the Melbourne International Film Festival before arriving at other leading festivals around the world. We will bring Speed Sisters to UK audiences in 2016.
“A spirited, crowd-pleasing portrait.” – Indiewire
“An eye-opening doc that succeeds in its goal of shattering stereotypes.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Synopsis
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.