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    Heaven On Earth

    2008-09-07T03:55:00Z

    Dir. Deepa Mehta.Canada 2008. 106 min.The yearnings and travails of an Indian emigre bride, a subject recently given a pictorial, naturalistic treatment inBrick Lane, gets a grittier, more mystical workout in Deepa Mehta’s slow-burning and quietly potentHeaven on Earth.The seventh feature of the Toronto-based director opened ...

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    Preity Zinta to star in Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth

    2007-09-08T14:52:00Z

    Bollywood starlet Preity Zinta is set to star in Deepa Mehta's new film Heaven On Earth.Written and to be directed by Mehta and produced by long-time producing partner David Hamilton, the $3m feature goes to camera on November 5 in Toronto followed by filming in India. Mongrel Media will be ...

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    Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth to open Tongues on Fire Film Festival

    2009-03-06T17:16:00Z

    The eleventh edition of the Tongues On Fire Film Festival opens with Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth starring Preity Zinta at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on March 6 2009. Heaven On Earth deals with the issues of immigration, isolation and domestic violation. The screening is ...

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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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    Seema Biswas set for Deepa Mehta's Stella

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Bandit Queen star Seema Biswas has signed for a lead role in Deepa Mehta's Stella, a $4m comedy set to shoot in New Delhi immediately following production of the recently announced Heaven On Earth.In a departure from form, Mehta will co-direct with her brother Dilip Mehta, production on many of ...

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    Maximum picks up world sales to McGowan, Mehta Toronto titles

    2008-08-26T17:58:00Z

    Maximum Films International has picked up world sales rights on two major Canadian titles at TIFF: Michael McGowan's gala title, One Week, and Deepa Mehta's special presentation, Heaven On Earth.The One Week deal covers all rights except for Canada while the Heaven On Earth deal covers the world ex Canada ...

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    Telefilm backs 13 features including films by Mehta, McGowan

    2007-12-21T13:41:00Z

    New films from Deepa Mehta and Michael McGowan are among 13 English-language features backed by Telefilm Canada in its latest funding round, the Canadian investment agency announced today. Several projects have already started production, including Vincenzo Natali's Splice, starring Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley, which received $2.5m (C$2.5m) in Telefilm ...

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    Adoration, Fifty Dead Men, Before Tomorrow among Canada's Top Ten

    2008-12-16T20:31:00Z

    Atom Egoyan's Adoration, Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking and Marie-Helène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu's Sundance 2009 World Cinema competitor Before Tomorrow were among the features selected as Canada's Top Ten for 2008. Organized by the Toronto International Film Festival Group, the eighth annual presentation celebrates the year in ...

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    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...

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    The Necessities Of Life leads Genie nominations

    2009-02-11T10:53:00Z

    Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life received eight nominations and Yves-Christian Fornier's Everything Is Fine received seven as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the contenders for the 29th annual Genie Awards. Necessities Of Life was Canada's submission for the foreign-language Oscar.The two Quebecois titles were followed closely ...