Director Deepa Mehta’s film Funny Boy will represent Canada at the 93rd Academy Awards as the submission for best international film, Telefilm Canada’s executive director Christa Dickenson announced on Thursday.
Mehta, whose previous film Water was competed for best foreign language film — the category’s previous name — in 2007, said she could barely believe it when she heard about the nomination.
At the same time, the film being selected and supported by Telefilm made her proud to be a Canadian.
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