Patricia Rozema
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Patricia Rozema (born August 20, 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Dutch parents.[1]
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[edit] Biography
In 1981, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English Literature from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was raised Calvinist and identifies as a "devout agnostic".[2] Rozema is quiet about her personal life, but does talk about her relationship with her partner Lesley Barber.[3]
[edit] Filmography
- Urban Menace (short), director (1984)
- Passion: A Letter in 16 mm (short) (1985)
- Head Office, Assistant Director (1985)
- The Fly, 3rd Assistant Director (1986)
- I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, director, writer, producer (1987)
- White Room, director, writer, co-producer
- Desperanto (short), director, writer 1991.
- When Night is Falling, director, writer (1995)
- Curtis's Charm, executive producer (1995)
- At My Back I Always Hear (tv episode) (1996)
- Six Gestures, from series "Yo-Yo Ma, Inspired by Bach" director, writer (1997)
- The Shape I Think (short) (1997)
- Mansfield Park, director, writer (1999)
- Happy Days director (2000)
- This Might Be Good (short), director, writer (2000)
- A Wrinkle In Time, executive producer.
[edit] Awards
- Second prize at the Chicago International Film Festival for her short Passion: A Letter in 16 mm.
- I've Heard the Mermaids Singing won the Prix de la Jeunesse at Director's Fortnight in Cannes and was nominated for Best Picture - with Rozema garnering nominations Best Director and Best Screenplay - at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988. The film received 17 further awards.
- White Room earned 4 prizes, and 3 Genie nominations.
- When Night is Falling won many awards from different countries and at various gay and lesbian film festivals.
- Rozema's episode "Six Gestures" won a Prime Time Emmy Award.
[edit] References
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001), Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, University of Toronto Press, p. 185, ISBN 0802083986
- ^ Yo-Yo Ma, Sony Classical, <http://www.sonyclassical.com/releases/63203/films/direct_6.html>. Retrieved on 2007-10-27
- ^ Hays, Matthew (January 18, 2000), “Everything's coming up Rozema”, The Advocate, <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_Jan_18/ai_58435733>. Retrieved on 2007-10-27
