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ARRAY Acquires Deepa Mehta’s Adaptation Of ‘Funny Boy’, Filmmaker Talks Women Of Color Taking Award Season Spotlight

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Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAva DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has acquired the highly-anticipated dramatic feature Funny Boy directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

The film is based on the best-selling Canadian novel by Shyam Selvadurai and will open theatrically in select cities and debut on Netflix on December 10.Mehta is best known for her trilogy element-title trilogy Fire (1996), Earth (1998) and Water (2005).

She co-wrote Funny Boy with Selvaduri. The film was shot on location and set in Sri Lanka in the ’70s and ’80s and explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy named Arjie (portrayed by Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram).

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