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NewsCanada selects ‘Universal Language’ as 2025 Oscar submission
Oscilloscope to release in the US; Best Friend Forever handles international sales.
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NewsToronto Film Critics to honour Deepa Mehta
The Toronto Film Critics Association has selected the director of Water to receive its Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award.
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Reviews‘Funny Boy’: Review (Netflix)
Deepa Mehta’s appealing drama follows two young lovers in Sri Lanka amid the outbreak of the Civil War
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FeaturesBusan shines spotlight on three Asian women filmmakers who redefined their times
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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NewsBusan to celebrate Korean film centennial, Asian women filmmakers
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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Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV
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
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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Mehta plots Exclusion as Water follow-up
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, ...
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NewsCanada selects ‘Funny Boy’ for Oscar international feature film category
Coming-of-age story will premiere on Netflix outside Canada on December 10.
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