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Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast Puts Pedal To The Metal With ‘Speed Sisters’ Director Amber Fares, Filmmaker Telling Unexpected Stories From Palestine & Israel
Amber Fares' 2015 documentary Speed Sisters about an all-woman race car team in the West Bank has new significance amid the war in Gaza.
Doc Talk podcast co-host John Ridley revisits the film with Fares several years after its initial release, a documentary that takes on new significance with the ongoing conflagration in Gaza, only a few miles distant from the West Bank. Ridley also reckons with the director’s short film Reckoning with Laughter, about the daring Israeli comedian and activist Noam Shuster, who spent her formative years in Neve Shalom/Wāħat as-Salām (“Oasis of Peace”), an unusual community outside of Jerusalem where Palestinians and Israeli Jews live side by side – by choice. Doc Talk is a production of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios, presented with support from National Geographic Documentary Films.
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