Chandran Rutnam is a Sri Lankan film maker. He has lived in Los Angeles, California for 38 years and is now residing in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rutnam has hosted numerous Hollywood films for their location shoots in Sri Lanka. He was the Line Producer/Production Supervisor on several international productions including the Sri Lankan location shoot of Paramount Pictures' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indochine (1992). Steven Spielberg once referred to Rutnam as "Our most valued friend in the Far East".[1][2][3] Rutnam has had the distinction of working with Sir David Lean, Sir Carol Reed, John Boorman, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Regis Wargnier. Rutnam wrote the screenplay, produced, directed and edited the film The Road from Elephant Pass, which was a Finalist Award Winner at the New York International Telvision and Film Awards in 2011. He wrote the adapted screenplay and produced and directed, A Common Man with Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross. The film was nominated for the four main awards at the Madrid International Film Festival. The film won the Best Picture, Best Director and the Best Actor Awards in 2013.[4] In that same year Rutnam co-wrote the screenplay, directed and edited the film Sri Siddhartha Gauthama, which won the Best Film Award in the World Cinema Section of the Delhi International Film Festival (2013). Rutnam directed the film According to Matthew with Jacqueline Fernandez and Alston Koch. Rutnam is planning the production of Outcast, based on the Joseph Conrad novel and Toomai of the Elephants based on the Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Film Location Services which mostly hosts foreign films to be shot in South and South East Asia. He founded the once-popular local airline company, Lionair and owns the Asian Aviation Centre in Sri Lanka. He is the Chief Consultant at Selvasingam Consultants which promotes Films, Film Location Services, Leisure & Entertainment industries via Digital Media. Biography Chandran Rutnam was born to a Tamil father Dr. James T. Rutnam and a Sinhala mother Evelyn Wijeratne, who gave him all his yearning for freedom and adventure. Rutnam was a school boy when David Lean arrived in Sri Lanka to shoot his Second World War epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film crew hired a house that belonged to his parents for the shooting.[1][2] Due to this exposure, to the consternation of his parents, he dropped out of school and went to London to pursue his dream of a career in films. He later moved to the United States and attended the film school at the University of Southern California and the San Fernando Valley College of Law. While working in Hollywood studios, Rutnam's break in selling Sri Lankan locations to international filmmakers came when he managed to convince John Derek, director of Tarzan the Apeman, to shoot the film starring his wife Bo Derek, in Sri Lan