When I set out to make Row Of Life , my first feature documentary, I never imagined it would become what it did. I thought I was signing up to make a film about one woman’s conviction to succeed against all odds. I didn’t yet realize it would become a mirror reflecting my own capacity to keep going in the face of increasingly insurmountable odds. The project tested my determination to honor a promise I made to tell someone’s story—a promise that deepened in significance as the years wore on,