Richie Mehta

Richie Mehta was born in Toronto where he also studied painting and sculpture. He then took a course in film direction at the University of Toronto. He made a number of short films which he also scripted, among which was the sci-fi System of Units (2004). Amal (2007) is a film adaptation of a story of the same name written by Richie's brother Shaun. The film was originally a short (Amal, 2004) until Mehta made his feature film debut with the same material. His work won him the Jury Award at the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival.