Video Podcast #9: Director Deepa Mehta

February 23rd, 2008 by rickt

Welcome back to the Movies By Women Video Podcast — we’re back!!!

Up this time, in Video Podcast #9, MoviesByWomen.com interviews Canadian-based Indian Director Deepa Mehta. She directed the 2007 Oscar-Nominated feature WATER and many other acclaimed films such as EARTH and also FIRE. She tells incredible stories of how 2,000 Hindu protestors stormed and burnt down her film set eventually destroying it and tossing it to the Ganges River. Eventually, Mehta put the pieces back together and made this incredibly moving film WATER (2005) following the journey of a 7 year old girl who’s just lost her husband.

Runtime: 05:49
Format: Quicktime .MOV, 36.1MB
Download: LINK

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