Funny Boy

Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy selected as Canada's international film entry to Oscars 2021

Deepa Mehta, who has scored her second Academy Award nomination with Funny Boy, says the film holds up the "flag of inclusion, in a world tethering towards an abyss of the great divide."

Ava DuVernay's ARRAY acquires Deepa Mehta's coming-of-age feature Funny Boy

In a joint statement, Ava DuVernay and ARRAY President Tilane Jones hailed Funny Boy as a "cinematic gem".

Deepa Mehta to adapt Shyam Selvadurai's coming-of-age novel, Funny Boy; filming begins in January 2019

Deepa Mehta's previous works like Earth and Midnight's Children were also book adaptations