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Deepa Mehta Talks About Her Deep Connection to Toronto Festival

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Shalini Dore Features News EditorIndo-Canadian helmer Deepa Mehta has a long history with the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, where nearly all of her films have premiered, starting with “Sam and Me” in 1994.

She returned to the festival to help mentor up-and-coming filmmakers. Currently finishing up a feature film based on Shyam Selvadurai’s book “Funny Boy,” which is a “a coming-of-age love story set in 1970s-’80s Colombo [in Sri Lanka] with the backdrop of the civil war.” Mehta took time out to talk to us about her connections with the festival via email. The earliest mention of you in Variety is a review of your debut film, “Sam and Me,” starring the late Ranjit Chowdry.

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