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Sri Lankan cinema encompasses the Sri Lankan film industry. It is a fledgling industry that has struggled to find a footing since its inauguration in 1947 with Kadawunu Poronduwa produced by S. M. Nayagam of Chitra Kala Movietone. Sri Lankan films are usually made in Sinhala and Tamil, the dominant languages of the country.
From the time he was a young film maker one of his only requests was that the government make way for a proper film archive that would help protect the heritage of the films produced by Sri Lanka. On 5 April 2014, his own milestone 95th birthday, his request was granted when the National film corporation ceremoniously opened the "Lester James ...
It was awarded the Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress of the year at the prestigious Sarasaviya Awards Festival. The film, which depicts the love affair between two school going teenagers, created a sensation among Sri Lankan film lovers, both young and old, and is considered a landmark in the history of Sri Lankan cinema. [1]
The film was presented with Russian and English subtitles at the 1961 Soviet Film Festival in Moscow. [4] The film Sikuru Tharuwa was his second film screenplay which he wrote in 1963. In the film, he made characters based on real incidents and persons he met. The film later won second place at the first Sinhala Film Festival in 1964.
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Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena [1] (28 March 1943 – 28 January 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. [2] He has been referred to as a 'rebel with a cause', an ‘enfant terrible of the '70s', and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema’s 'second revolution'.
Rekava (Sinhala for "Line of Destiny") is a 1956 film based on village life and mythical beliefs in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). It is the first Sinhala film fully shot in Ceylon and was film shot outdoors in the country. It was also the first Sri Lankan film that was free from Indian influence.
[1] Victoria Glendinning described it as "a foundational novel in the Sri Lankan literary canon", [3] but the novel remains little known in the wider world. [4] In 1980 a Sinhalese language film entitled Beddegama was released based on the novel. [5]