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Patricia Rozema (born 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Dutch parents.

Education

In 1981, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English Literature from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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.

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.

External links

• Official website

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