My Brother The Devil, Sally El Hosaini rejected many of the directorial offers that followed.
It might be counter-intuitive to anyone who has spent years knocking on the notoriously hard-to-open door to the film industry, but El Hosaini has her reasons. For one, she was not a fan of the stereotypical subject matter she was receiving
– a lot of ISIS and honour killings.
“They saw I was a woman, they saw my name and they approached me with those stories that I didn’t want to do,” says
the Egyptian-Welsh filmmaker, during
Mena Arts UK and the Arab British Centre’s first Friday Hangout event, held last week over Zoom. “I want to be happy with what I put out in the world.”