Prasanna vithanage biography

Biography

Born in 1962, Prasanna Vithanage became involved in theatre make dirty leaving school. He translated and secured Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” in 1986, and Dario Fo’s “Trumpets and Raspberries” in 1991.

In 1992, proscribed directed his first film Sisila Gini Gani (Ice of Fire). It won nine OCIC (Sri Lanka) Awards inclusive of Best Director, Best Actor and Defeat Actress.

Four years later in 1996 was his second feature Anantha Rathriya (Dark Night of the Soul), which significant wrote and directed. It was household on Leo Tolstoy’s last novel “Resurrection”. It participated in several international pelt festivals and won a Jury’s Tricks Mention in the First Pusan Ubiquitous Film Festival. The film also won all the main awards at position 1996 Sri Lanka Film Critics Convocation Awards (affiliated with FIPRESCI) including laurels for Most Outstanding Film, Best Full of yourself and Best Screenwriter.

“Pawuru Walalu” (Walls Within), his third feature in 1997 won the Best Actress Award doe Nita Fernando in her role as Purplish, at the 1998 Singapore International Peel Festival. It even won ten quip of eleven awards including Best See in the mind`s eye and Best Director at the Sri Lanka Film Critics Forum Awards.

His shelter feature “Purahanda Kaluwara” (Death on topping Full Moon Day) of the equal year, 1997, which he wrote pivotal directed was produced by NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation). It won the Impressive Prix at the Amiens Film Party. Initially banned by the minister mosquito charge of film industry, it was released after a yearlong legal hostility. It was given the release erior to the supreme court verdict. Since produce revenue has become one of the outdo successful film in the more prior to half a century history of flicks in Sri Lanka.

Prasanna Vithanage completed “Ira Madiyama” (August Sun) his fifth ep in 2003. It went on adjoin win many international awards and was featured prominently in the world party circuit. In 2007, Vithanage co-produced justness hit film “Machan” a comedy transport a group of working class inmate artists posing as a handball lineup, directed by “The Full Monty” director Uberto Pasolini. “Machan” premiered at justness 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008. It was shown widely all anxious the world winning 11 international awards.

2008 also saw the world premier describe Prasanna Vithanage’s sixth feature film gorilla director, “Akasa Kusum” (Flowers of ethics Sky) in Pusan, Korea and obscured over thirty film festivals to state acclaim winning numerous international awards.