‘Kerosene’ by Kannan Arunasalam wins international documentary award
6 Mar, 2013
is extremely pleased to recognise that Kannan Arunasalam has won the 2013 South Asian International Documentary Festival’s Prism Short Award for ‘Kerosene’. This short film was one of three produced by Kannan with utilising a small grant by Groundviews in 2011. First screened in Colombo and subsequently featured on the critically acclaimed Moving Imageswebsite, ‘Kerosene’ and his two other short films generated the most feedback and engagement given their unique, deeply sensitive and compelling interrogation of life in the North of Sri Lanka, post-war.
You can view the full film below.
Go to Moving Images to see his two other films, as well as other productions on Sri Lanka. A trailer for all three productions can be viewed below.
Encountering The Local Gogaan
March 6, 2013
An exhibition of Seevali Illangasinghe‘s paintings will be held at the Visual Arts University, (UDA Perera gallery), No 46, Horton Place Colombo 7, March 11-18, from 9.00 A.M to 5.oopm. The exhibition will be his latest collection of paintings. Being an eminent visual artist for over four decades, Seevali Illangasinghe has been marking one aspects of art in Sri Lanka’s art history and has exhibited his paintings in many capitols of the world.
Seevali, who suffered a brain hemorrhage and had to spend all his money to recover, so a group of his admirers decided to have an exhibition of his paintings. Once again he suffered a second attack and is recovering. There are four people who have offered to sponsor the exhibition. 1. Professor Carlo Forseka, 2. Kumar Sangakara 3. Dharmasiri Bandaranayake 4 Kumar Rupesinghe. The proceeds of the sale will go to his family, who are assisting in the exhibition.
