Spanning three continents and four countries, shooting water is a remarkable story of love and redemption in february 2000, devyani saltzman, daughter of international award-winning film-maker deepa mehta, travelled to benares to work with her mother on water, the final film of the elements trilogy after fire and earth since her parents’ divorce when she was eleven years old, devyani had spent her life navigating between two religions, two traditions, two cultures, and two people belonging to both and to neither at once water would be mother and daughter’s second chance but after only a week of shooting, the film about the oppression of hindu widows became the target of a series of politically motivated attacks by hindu fundamentalists protestors destroyed the sets, burned effigies of deepa, and made threats on her life water was shut down what began as a journey to heal deep wounds from the past turned into a five-year odyssey to complete a film (as it turned out, the odyssey woul

Shooting Water: A Mother-daughter Journey and the Making of a Film [Mar 01, 2006] Saltzman, Devyani

Devyani Saltzman

Humor & Entertainment

Newmarket

This debut memoir, an intimate story of second chances, love and redemption, spans three continents and four countries, as a daughter rekindles her relationship with her filmmaker mother during the production of Water, Deepa Mehta's most controversial movie. Introducing a new literary voice, Shooting Water recounts Devyani Saltzman's remarkable story of reconnecting with her mother, international award-winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta. When Devyani was eleven, her parents divorced, and the courts required her to choose which parent to live with. She chose to live with her father in Toronto and then spent the next eight years navigating between two religions (Hinduism and Judaism), two cultures (Indian and Canadian), two traditions and two people—belonging to both and to neither at once. In late 1999, at the age of nineteen, Devyani was invited by her mother to join her in the holy city of Benares, India, to work on Water, the final installment in Mehta's acclaimed Elements trilogy (which started with Fire and Earth). After only a week of shooting, Waterbecame the target of a series of politically motivated attacks. The movie was shut down. Devyani went off to Oxford and, then, three years later rejoined her mother when production resumed in Sri Lanka. What began as a journey to heal deep wounds from the past turned into a five-year odyssey to complete the film. Transformative and inspiring, Shooting Water chronicles Saltzman's life-changing experience in India, the struggle to produce a film, and, through that struggle, the emergence of a deeper love between mother and daughter. 16 b/w photographs.

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Shooting Water: A Mother-daughter Journey and the Making of a Film [Mar 01, 2006] Saltzman, Devyani

Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking