Deepa Mehta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. She also co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deepa Mehta, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​