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David Hamilton is a Canadian film producer. Hamilton has been nominated on two occasions for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture (later merged into the Canadian Screen Awards) for the films Bollywood/Hollywood and Water. [1]
Hamilton Mehta Productions is a Toronto-based independent film Production Company. Co-founded in 1996 by internationally acclaimed director Deepa Mehta and Producer David Hamilton, Hamilton-Mehta Productions has been international recognized for its powerful and politically charged films that explore the human condition.
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Hamilton-Mehta Productions is a Toronto-based independent film production company. Founded in 1996 by director Deepa Mehta and producer David Hamilton, Hamilton-Mehta Productions is well known for its films that explore the human condition.
Dec 5, 2005 · As the executive producer of two of Deepa Mehta's most commercially successful films, Water and Bollywood/Hollywood, Hamilton has done what few English-Canadian film producers (besides veteran...
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Mehta was born in Amritsar, Punjab near the militarized border of Pakistan and experienced firsthand the impacts brought forth by the Partition of India. She describes learning about warfare from citizens of Lahore, stating "Even when I was growing up in Amritsar, we used to go every weekend to Lahore, so I just grew up around people who talked abo...
After graduating Mehta began working for a production company that made documentary and educational films for the Indian government. During the production of her first feature-length documentary focusing on the working life of a child bride, she met and married Canadian documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman, who was in India making a film. She migrat...
Many of Mehta's films across her career have focused on the duality of her national and cultural identity which has informed much of her filmmaking as she has been described as the "quintessential transnational filmmaker". With her childhood and heritage informing her of key Indian and Hindu traditions, she has been seen to compare these practices ...
In India, she met and married filmmaker Paul Saltzman whom she divorced in 1983.[citation needed] The couple have a daughter, Devyani Saltzman, an author, curator and cultural critic.[citation needed] Mehta is currently married to producer David Hamilton. Her brother, Dilip Mehta, is a photojournalist and film director.[citation needed] He directed...
Mehta is credited with "infusing the energy of mainstream Indian cinema with fierce political consciousness".
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Film appearances 1. Jurm(1990) 2. Aashiqui(1990) 3. Water(2005)
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In addition to her filmmaking awards, Mehta has received the following honors: 1. Doctor of Laws, University of Victoria, 2009 2. Top 25 Canadian Immigrant AwardWinner, 2009 3. Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, 2012 4. Doctor of Laws, Mount Allison University, 2013 5. Doctor of Letters, Concordia Universit...
Beard, William; Jerry White (2002). "Deepa Mehta as Transnational Filmmaker". North of everything: English-Canadian cinema since 1980. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-390-2.Levitin, Jacqueline; Judith Plessis; Valerie Raoul (2003). "25 An Introduction to Deepa Mehta: Making Films in Canada and India". Women Filmmakers: Refocusing. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0903-0.Deepa Mehta at IMDbDavid Hamilton is an award-winning film producer based in Canada with projects worldwide. He is the founding partner in Hamilton Mehta Productions with Deepa Mehta.
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David Hamilton is a Canadian film producer. Hamilton has been nominated on two occasions for the Canadian Genie Award for Best Motion Picture, similar to the USA's Academy Awards, for the films Bollywood/Hollywood and Water.
