Cooking with Stella

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 the Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She also co-founded... Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. Mehta was born in Amritsar in Punjab, India, though her family moved to New Delhi while she was still a child, and her father worked as a film distributor. Subsequently, Mehta attended Welham Girls High School, a boarding school for girls in Dehradun and graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in philosophy. After completing her graduation, Mehta started making short documentaries in India, and in time she met Canadian documentarian Paul Saltzman, who was in India making a film and whom she was to later marry and migrate with to Canada in 1973. Once in Canada, she embarked on her film career as a screenwriter for children's films, she also made a few documentaries including,At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch .
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Dilip Mehta is a photojournalist and director. Mehta, a Canadian citizen, divides his time between New York City, Delhi and Toronto. His work as a photojournalist has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic and Time. Mehta's five-year coverage of The Bhopal gas tragedy won... him numerous prizes including the World Press award and Overseas Press award. His next directorial project Cooking with Stella is co-written with his sister Deepa Mehta, a director and screenwriter best known for her Academy Award nominated film Water. His directorial debut The Forgotten Woman was inspired by his work on the set of Water.
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