"We are Proving the Market Wrong and Hopefully Inspiring Other Filmmakers": Writer/Director Dina Amer on Bringing You Resemble Me to Screen

It’s been nearly seven years since I embarked on the journey of my directorial debut, You Resemble Me. It has been a thorny and steep hill to climb. My film is about a woman caught in the center of a terrorist attack, notorious after being named the first female suicide bomber in Europe. I'm a Muslim Egyptian American-not a fluent French speaker-and yet I found myself drawn to a story, at once delicate and destructive, one with roots buried deep in French soil, layers of history -- of, for man...