An award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker credits the Catholic Church’s media initiatives with having developed and improved the country’s film industry. Prasanna Vithanage, who won this year’s SIGNIS Sri ...

Church-run SIGNIS-Sri Lanka has called for entries for its cinema and television awards to be held in November. Local films and TV episodes shown in 2015 will be considered for the SIGNIS-Sri Lanka ...

Several Bangladeshi films slated for release this Eid-ul-Fitr were initially planned to be shot in India. Producers and directors had made preparatory visits to locations in Kolkata, Hyderabad and ...

Sri Lanka, Jan. 29 -- Preliminary discussions on establishing a National Film School in Sri Lanka were held recently (22) under the leadership of the Parliamentary Caucus on Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Plans are afoot to establish a National Film School in Sri Lanka by utilising existing resources of the Sri Lanka Foundation, ...

A priest famed for his contributions to Sri Lankan cinema and Catholic communications died on June 16. Father Ernest Poruthota, 88, was born on Aug. 31, 1931, in Marawila and was ordained on Feb. 2, ...

In a move to bolster film preservation across borders, India’s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project ...

Chinese director Li Ruijun’s “River Road” won best film in the Asian competition at the 2nd International Film Festival of Colombo (Nov. 6-11). The jury also gave a special prize to Behtash Sanaeha’s ...