Deepa Mehta

One was, uh, uh, directors like Ram Gopal Varma and some other directors whom I, um, you know, respect, they said, "I don't think it's working.

You should not be doing stuff like this." And they were extreme other way, like, uh, directors like Deepa Mehta came.

I played this and, and they went out and came in, and she was, like, weeping.

And she was weeping, and she was like, "What is this song?" So I didn't know whether people are gonna like it or not.

You

know, what do you mean? All of these Deepa Mehta movies made in India are Canadian movies or like another good one or Miriam Jouber's work like Brotherhood, which she does in Tunisia.

And that's a Canadian film.

And there's certainly ones that we're playing at TIFF this year, like, you know, a great one.

We started getting approached by a lot of studios to do community fundraising screenings.

And one of the films we showed was Earth by Deepa Mehta.

which was about the partition of India when India became India and Pakistan.

And at the end of the screening, as people were leaving, and this is in New York City, in Manhattan, I heard a few people say to each other, did you know that part of history? And someone else said, well, now I do.