Deepa Mehta, OC OOnt ([d̪iË paË ËˆmeË É¦t̪aË ] born 1 January 1950)
is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her
Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).Earth
was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for
Best Foreign Language Film, and Water was Canada's official entry for
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third
non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after
Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film A Bullet to the Head and
Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature Atanarjuat: The Fast
Runner.She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband,
producer David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003
for the screenplay of Bollywood/Hollywood. In May 2012, Mehta received
the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic
Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her
Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).Earth
was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for
Best Foreign Language Film, and Water was Canada's official entry for
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third
non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after
Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film A Bullet to the Head and
Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature Atanarjuat: The Fast
Runner.She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband,
producer David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003
for the screenplay of Bollywood/Hollywood. In May 2012, Mehta received
the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic
Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
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