විමුක්ති ජයසුන්දර

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ශ්‍රි ලංකාව

Early life His father was a Science Teacher and Vimukthi’s early move to Galle was a result of his parents temporarily separating, thereby forcing him to live with his grandmother. But a wave of ethnic unrest, destruction, bloodshed and chaos shrouded ...

මාලක දේවප්‍රිය

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Biography Born in Sri Lanka on 30 March 1979, Dewapriya graduated with a BA (International Relations and History) from the University of Colombo in 2005.[2][4][6] After graduation, he received a scholarship for Video/Film/New Media at Akademie Schloss ...

ෂෙල්ටන් පයාගල

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Biography Shelton studied at Sri Pada Vidyalaya, Hatton, 1956 to 1960 and Prince of Wales, Moratuwa.He had been an active member in the literature, cinema and stage circles. Following the examples set by literary giants like Martin Wickramasinghe and G ...

චින්තන ධර්මදාස

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Biography Chinthana graduated from the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Philosophy and began his career as a media officer and worked in several government institutions. Shortly he moved into print med ...

සංජිව පුෂ්පකූමාර

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Feature Films Burning Birds( Working title), in development Flying Fish (2011) (Director/Writer/Producer) Short Films Unforgiven (2012) ( Writer / Director)/ - The film invited by 66th Cannes film festival for its Short Film Corner s ...

මයිචෑල් ඹන්ඩාටිජේ

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Early life Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1943 and moved to England in 1954. He attended Dulwich College.[1] After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. He studied for a time at Bishop's College Sch ...

සිරි ගූණසිංහ

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කෑගල්ල, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Early life & Career Siri Gunasinghe was born in Kegalle District of Sri Lanka. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle and University of Ceylon. He subsequently travelled to Paris where he continued his studies and wrote La technique de la peinture i ...

අශෝක හදගම

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Theatre Asoka Handagama’s entry to filmmaking was via the theatre and television. His maiden theatrical effort, "Bhoomika", was to address the seedling emerging ethnic crisis in the Island. The play won the National Youth award for best direction in 19 ...

ප්‍රසන්න විතානගේ

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Biography Born in 1962 to a Sinhalese family, Prasanna Vithanage became involved in theatre after leaving school. He translated and directed George Bernard Shaw’s play, Arms and the Man, in 1986. In 1991, he translated and directed a production of Ital ...

ලෙස්ටර් ජෙමිස් පිරිස්

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Early life Lester James Peries was born on April 5, 1919 in Dehiwela, Colombo, British Ceylon. Lester's father Dr. James Francis Peries had studied medicine in Scotland and his mother Ann Gertrude Winifred Jayasuria was a graduate of St. Bridget's Conv ...

ධර්මසේන පතිරාජ

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව

Early life Educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Pathiraja graduated from the University of Peradeniya with an honours degree in Sinhala and Western Classical Culture in 1967. Subsequently he began work as a lecturer in Drama and Performance Arts.[1] ...