Patricia Rozema

Infobox Actor
name = Patricia Rozema
birthdate = birth date and age|1958|8|20
birthplace = Kingston, Ontario, Canada
emmyawards = Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
1997 "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach"

Patricia Rozema (born August 20, 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Dutch parents.citation |title=Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film |first=Wyndham |last=Wise |year=2001 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=0802083986 |page=185]

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".citation |title=Yo-Yo Ma |url=http://www.sonyclassical.com/releases/63203/films/direct_6.html |publisher=Sony Classical |accessdate=2007-10-27] Rozema is quiet about her personal life, but does talk about her relationship with her partner Lesley Barber.citation |title=Everything's coming up Rozema |periodical=The Advocate |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_Jan_18/ai_58435733 |date=January 18, 2000 |first=Matthew |last=Hays |accessdate=2007-10-27]

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.
*"", director (2008)

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.patriciarozema.com/ Official website]
* [http://femfilm.ca/director_search.php?director=patricia-rozema&lang=e Patricia Rozema -- femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database]
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