Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta in 2005
Born (1950-09-15) 15 September 1950 (age 74)
Amritsar, East Punjab, India
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, film producer
Years active1976–present
Known forElements Trilogy
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1973; div. 1983)​

David Hamilton (– present)
ChildrenDevyani Saltzman (daughter)
RelativesDilip Mehta (brother)
Websitewww.hamiltonmehta.com

Deepa Mehta, OC OOnt ([diːpa ˈmeːɦta]; born 15 September 1950)[1] is an Indian-born 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 the 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.[2] In May 2012, Mehta received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.[3]

  1. ^ Rahim, Abdur (2014). Canadian Immigration and South Asian Immigrants. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781499058741.
  2. ^ "Deepa Metha". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Deepa Mehta biography". Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2015.