#namour

My first feature film, Namour (2016), is now streaming on Amazon. It's been a long time coming, and I'm glad my film now has a home.

Namour in many ways began with this Tumblr.

When I wrote Namour, I was thinking about the existential crisis that overcame me and people I know (guys I dated) in my 20s and how isolated I felt, especially at a time when the world was telling me I should be so happy to be young.

I started posting film stills and writing about films on Tumblr that I felt captured the isolation I was feeling. And a small community began to form, of cinephiles, filmmakers, writers. They supported me when I ran a Kickstarter for Namour, after potential investors told me that my film needed to include a storyline about a wedding or a terrorist if my protagonist was an Arab-American.

And this community supported me when Namour was distributed by Array and began streaming on Netflix. You watched it, posted about it, wrote about it.

I don't post as much on this Tumblr, but the community that I found here was special and I don't think Namour would exist without it, so thank you.

Heidi Saman’s new drama “Namour” aims to showcase an often overlooked aspect of the American immigrant experience. The film follows Steven, the son of Egyptian parents who is coming to terms with his menial valet job at a ritzy L.A. restaurant.