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Toronto Film Critics to honour Deepa Mehta

2015-11-30T14:15:00Z

The Toronto Film Critics Association has selected the director of Water to receive its Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award.

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Canada selects ‘Universal Language’ as 2025 Oscar submission

2024-08-27T19:00:00Z

Oscilloscope to release in the US; Best Friend Forever handles international sales.

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‘Funny Boy’: Review (Netflix)

2020-12-08T16:59:00Z

Deepa Mehta’s appealing drama follows two young lovers in Sri Lanka amid the outbreak of the Civil War

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Busan shines spotlight on three Asian women filmmakers who redefined their times

2019-10-06T17:26:00Z

Special programme ‘Gaze and Memories - Asia’s Leading Women Filmmakers’ is screening works from Yasmin Ahmad, Deepa Mehta and Trinh T Minh-ha.

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Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV

2008-09-30T20:47:00Z

Loyola Marymount University's School Of Film And Television (SFTV) will honour Deepa Mehta with the 2008 Infinite Power Of Story Lifetime Achievement Award.Mehta will receive the award during the univesity's Film Outside The Frame Festival on October 13 at the DGA in Los Angeles.. She will also be the first ...

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Deepa Mehta teams with Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children

2008-11-06T14:55:00Z

Deepa Mehta is lining up a feature version of Midnight's Children with author Salman Rushdie, whose masterpiece of magic realism about the birth of modern India has remained untouched by film-makers for nearly 30 years.The film-maker announced the film with Rushdie today, at the eighth annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council ...

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Busan to celebrate Korean film centennial, Asian women filmmakers

2019-08-27T09:36:00Z

Festival to screen ten films from the past 100 years of Korean cinema and a special focus on Deepa Mehta, Yasmin Ahmad and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

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Mehta plots Exclusion as Water follow-up

2005-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still riding the strong reaction to her Toronto festivalopener Water, hot Canadian director Deepa Mehta is already preparing hernext project, Exclusion, with Water star John Abraham in thelead. Mehta is looking to shoot in Calcutta and Vancouver next summer.The screenplay, written by Mehta, concerns the little-known Komagata Maruincident of 1914, ...