1. Patricia Rozema was born on 20 August 1958 and is a Canadian film director, writer and producer.
11 Facts About Patricia Rozema
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Patricia Rozema was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
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Patricia Rozema studied philosophy and English literature at Calvin College in Michigan.
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In 1993, the Toronto International Film Festival ranked it ninth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time, with Patricia Rozema becoming the first female director to have a film on the list.
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In 1990, Patricia Rozema directed White Room, a neo-noir starring McCarthy, Kate Nelligan, Margot Kidder, and Maurice Godin.
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Patricia Rozema then directed the romance film When Night Is Falling in 1995 starring Pascale Bussieres and Rachael Crawford, and featuring Don McKellar and Tracy Wright.
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Patricia Rozema's next two feature films were made outside Canada; Mansfield Park is a revisionist adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of that name.
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Patricia Rozema later directed and ghost-wrote Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, which was based on the American Girl book series.
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Patricia Rozema's most recent feature, Mouthpiece, premiering at TIFF, is an adaptation of a two-woman play created and performed by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken, who star in the film.
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In 2017, Patricia Rozema founded her own production company, Crucial Things, to co-produce Mouthpiece.
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Patricia Rozema is openly lesbian and has two children with her former partner, film composer Lesley Barber.