1. Deepa Mehta co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996.
22 Facts About Deepa Mehta
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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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Deepa Mehta was born in Amritsar, Punjab near the militarized border of Pakistan and experienced firsthand the impacts brought forth by the Partition of India.
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Deepa Mehta's family moved to New Delhi while she was still a child, and her father worked as a film distributor.
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Subsequently, Deepa Mehta attended Welham Girls High School, boarding school in Dehradun on the foothills of Himalayas.
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Deepa Mehta graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi with a degree in Philosophy.
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Deepa Mehta migrated to Toronto to live with her husband in 1973, and was credited in some of her early films as Deepa Saltzman.
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Additionally, Deepa Mehta directed several episodes of the Saltzman produced CBC drama Danger Bay.
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Deepa Mehta directed the documentaries At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Traveling Light, the latter focusing on the work of Deepa Mehta's brother Dilip as a photojournalist.
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In 1987, based on the works of Alice Munro, Cynthia Flood and Betty Lambert, Deepa Mehta produced and co-directed Martha, Ruth and Edie.
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Deepa Mehta followed this with her film Camilla starring Bridget Fonda and Jessica Tandy in 1994.
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Deepa Mehta directed two episodes of George Lucas' television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
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Deepa Mehta directed several English-language films set in Canada, including The Republic of Love and Heaven on Earth which deals with domestic violence and has Preity Zinta playing the female lead.
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Also in 2008 Deepa Mehta produced the documentary The Forgotten Woman, directed by her brother Dilip.
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At the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, Deepa Mehta won the Best Director award for Funny Boy.
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In November 2021, Variety announced that Deepa Mehta is set to direct a film adaptation of Avni Doshi's novel Burnt Sugar, with Ben Silverman's Propagate Content producing the film.
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Deepa Mehta describes the conception of the idea for the Elements films to be extremely organic.
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Deepa Mehta maintains that each film centers on politics of a certain phenomenon.
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Deepa Mehta directed Midnight's Children after collaborating on the screenplay with the novel's author, Salman Rushdie.
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Deepa Mehta's brother, Dilip Mehta, is a photojournalist and film director.
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Deepa Mehta directed Cooking with Stella, which he co-wrote with Deepa.
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Deepa Mehta participated in a TV PSA for the charity Artists Against Racism, and is a member of the organization.