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Deepa Mehta
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<p>Deepa Mehta, <a href="/facts/Order_of_Canada/whrUUAHI">OC</a> <a href="/facts/Order_of_Ontario/vWJ7m2mq">OOnt</a> is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her <a href="/facts/Elements_Trilogy/B6LSoJwn">Elements Trilogy</a>, <a href="/facts/Fire_(1996_film)/FCVI7kyG"><i>Fire</i></a> (1996), <i><a href="/facts/Earth_(1998_film)/sMoMrssk">Earth</a></i> (1998), and <i><a href="/facts/Water_(2005_film)/YFgcMTbk">Water</a></i> (2005). </p><p><i>Earth</i> was submitted by <a href="/facts/List_of_Indian_submissions_for_the_Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film/3s268CXG">India as its official entry</a> for the <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film/RlmvINvk">Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film</a>, and <i>Water</i> was Canada's official entry for the <a href="/facts/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film/RlmvINvk">Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film</a>, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after <a href="/facts/Attila_Bertalan/wdLNAUSG">Attila Bertalan</a>'s 1990 invented-language film <i><a href="/facts/A_Bullet_in_the_Head_(1990_film)/38C2NFy9">A Bullet to the Head</a></i> and <a href="/facts/Zacharias_Kunuk/c8q9TRjW">Zacharias Kunuk</a>'s 2001 <a href="/facts/Inuktitut/SFRWSNuq">Inuktitut</a>-language feature <i><a href="/facts/Atanarjuat%3a_The_Fast_Runner/GtCYvTQ2">Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner</a></i>. </p><p>She co-founded <a href="/facts/Hamilton-Mehta_Productions/w8xSYkYE">Hamilton-Mehta Productions</a>, with her husband, producer <a href="/facts/David_Hamilton_(Canadian_producer)/A6BH3N35">David Hamilton</a> in 1996. She was awarded a <a href="/facts/Genie_Award/3uGBI2jb">Genie Award</a> in 2003 for the screenplay of <i><a href="/facts/Bollywood%2fHollywood/RdMWEVoC">Bollywood/Hollywood</a></i>. In May 2012, Mehta received the <a href="/facts/Governor_General%2527s_Performing_Arts_Award/YwfJFYGN">Governor General's Performing Arts Award</a> for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. </p>