DEEPA MEHTA

DIRECTING

Deepa Mehta, LLD (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Genie Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Her repertoire includes Bollywood/Hollywood and the adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children.