Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter Patricia Rozema was BOTD in 1958. Born in Kingston, Ontario, she was raised in a strict Calvinist family, and first visited a cinema when she was 16. She studied philosophy and literature at Calvin University in Michigan, and worked as a television producer before retraining as a filmmaker. Her 1987 debut feature film, the lesbian-themed dramedy I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, premiered at the Cannes Festival where it won the Prix de Jeunesse and became an indie sleeper hit. Her 1990 thriller White Room was tepidly received, but had greater success with 1995’s When Night Is Falling, a lesbian romance about a philosophy professor who falls in love with a circus performer. Her documentary film Six Gestures, part of the Inspired By Bach series chronicling cellist Yo-Yo Ma, won an Emmy Award in 1997. She achieved broader international recognition with Mansfield Park, her 1999 revisionist adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, reinventing Austen’s scheming antagonist Mary Crawford as a proto-lesbian who attempts to reduce the heroine Fanny Price. Rozema has worked extensively in television, writing and directing for In Treatment and Mozart in the Jungle and co-scripted the 2009 Emmy-winning drama Grey Gardens, based on Albert and David Maysles’ 1975 documentary about mother-daughter recluses Edith and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale. Her most recent film, Mouthpiece, was released in 2018. Rozema was in a relationship with composer Lesley Barber, with whom she is raising two children. She is currently in a relationship with the English actress Saffron Burrows, whom she met while working on Mozart in the Jungle.