Deepa Mehta obviously knows a thing or two about making movies. Including her 1991 feature debut Sam & Me, she's directed 9 films, including the Oscar-nominated 2005 film Water, which will be airing this weekend after the latest episode of The Filmmakers. So what would she tell Canadians trying to follow in her footsteps?

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"Don't try and compete with the Americans," Mehta says in this preview of her interview on The Filmmakers. "That's what I would tell Canadian filmmakers."

Mehta says we have enough stories and enough moments to celebrate that can make for wonderful cinema.

"We don't have to emulate anybody."

Hear, hear.