Hamilton-Mehta Productions
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Hamilton-Mehta Productions is a Toronto
-based independent film production company. Founded in 1996 by director Deepa Mehta
and producer David Hamilton
, Hamilton-Mehta Productions is well known for its films that explore the human condition. The recipient of many well respected awards, Hamilton-Mehta's film Water was nominated in 2007 for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Toronto
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-based independent film production company. Founded in 1996 by director Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
and producer David Hamilton
David Hamilton (Canadian producer)
David Hamilton is a Canadian film producer. Hamilton has been nominated twice for a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Bollywood/Hollywood and Water.-Filmography:* Cooking with Stella * Water * Bollywood/Hollywood...
, Hamilton-Mehta Productions is well known for its films that explore the human condition. The recipient of many well respected awards, Hamilton-Mehta's film Water was nominated in 2007 for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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Filmography
- Fire (1996)
- EarthEarth (1998 film)Earth is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, . Earth is the second part of Mehta's Elements trilogy...
(1998) - Water (2005
- Heaven on EarthHeaven on Earth (film)Heaven on Earth a.k.a Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj...
(2008) - The Forgotten Woman (2008)
- Cooking with Stella (2009)
- Exclusion (filming planned for 2010)
- Midnight's Children (TBA) - based on the novel Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie about India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism...
by Salman Rushdie