Dina Amer

Dina Amer is an Egyptian-American film director, writer, producer and journalist.^[1][2][3]

Dina Amer
Occupation(s)	Director, writer, producer, journalist, actress
Years active	2011–present

Biography

Amer was born and raised in the United States.^[4]

Amer's work has been published by The New York Times, CNN, and VICE.^[5] In 2011, she received the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award from the Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF) for her reporting of the Arab Spring in Egypt.^[6] In 2016, she reported on the human trafficking of refugees of the Syrian civil war and the underground economy of the illegal Egypt–Gaza barrier for Vice News program Black Market: Dispatches.^[5]

Amer's debut feature film, You Resemble Me, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.^[7][8] For her screenplay Cain and Abel, which she co-wrote with Omar Mullick, she was invited to the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab in January 2022.^[9]

Filmography

Year	Title	Contribution	Note
2013	The Square	Actress[10]	Documentary
2021	You Resemble Me	Director, writer,[11] producer and actress	Feature film

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category	Work	Ref.
2021	Nominated	São Paulo International Film Festival	Best Film	You Resemble Me	[12]
	Nominated	Venice Film Festival	Giornate degli Autori		[13]
	Won	Red Sea International Film Festival	Audience Award		[14]
2022	Won	International Federation of Film Critics	Best International Film		[15]