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May 16, 2022 · By Deepa Mehta. Array. Toronto-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta has been making films since the 1970s, including the Oscar-nominated “Water,” part of her elements trilogy; “Bollywood/Hollywood ...
Deepa Mehta, LLD (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Genie Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her repertoire includes Bollywood/Hollywood and the adaptation of Salman ...
Oct 15, 2020 · Deepa Mehta ’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel “Funny Boy,” has been picked up by Ava DuVernay ’s ARRAY Releasing, and will land on ...
Sep 14, 2021 · In 2019, Mehta returned to the small screen with a Netflix original web series Leila and later directed Little America. The Indo-Canadian filmmaker, who has some great work to her credit, has always been inspired to bring good stories to people and wants other women filmmakers to do the same. “Make the films and tell the stories that move you ...
Dec 20, 2018 · I recently spoke by Zoom with director Deepa Mehta (Water) about her latest film, Funny Boy (which I also reviewed), based on the eponymous book by Sri Lankan author Shyam Selvadurai. The story centers around a Tamil family and their gay son, Arjie, whose budding sense of sexual identity emerges in the middle of the early 1980s ethnic conflicts ...
Hamilton Mehta Productions is a Toronto-based Production Company co-founded in 1996 by internationally acclaimed director Deepa Mehta & Producer David Hamilton CurRent Deepa Mehta's latest film Beeba Boys is premiering in a Gala Presentation at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival .
