Deepa Mehta (Hindi: दीपा मेहता) (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Genie Award winning and Academy Award nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter. Deepa Mehta's films focus around the Indian community, in India and in the diaspora.
Mehta attended Welham Girls High School and graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in philosophy before emigrating to Canada in 1973.
Mehta embarked on her film car...
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Deepa Mehta (Hindi: दीपा मेहता) (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Genie Award winning and Academy Award nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter. Deepa Mehta's films focus around the Indian community, in India and in the diaspora.
Mehta attended Welham Girls High School and graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in philosophy before emigrating to Canada in 1973.
Mehta embarked on her film career as a screenwriter for children's films. In 1991 she made her feature-film directorial debut with Sam & Me (starring Om Puri), a story of the relationship between a young Indian boy and an elderly Jewish gentleman in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale. It won First Honorable Mention in the Camera d'Or category of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Mehta followed up with Camilla starring Bridget Fonda and Jessica Tandy in 1994. In 2002, she directed Bollywood/Hollywood, for which she won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay. Mehta is...
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