Lester James Peries and Sumitra Peries Foundation

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75th anniversary 🇨🇵🇱🇰 : it's a wrap ! 💫 The celebrations of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Sri Lanka were concluded with the screening of Vaishnavee (2018) by Sumitra Peries at National Film Corporation, in collaboration with @lesterandsumitrafoundation - it was a full house for the poetess of Sri Lankan Cinema 🙏 Media courtesy : @newsfirst.lk

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On Tuesday the 5th of December! Inbox us if you would like to attend!

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Gamperaliya: The Greatest Masterpiece of Sinhala Cinema PLACES, PEOPLE & PASSIONS (3Ps) Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada [email protected] Early Movies When I was very young, my parents started taking me to see popular, animated movies produced by Walt Disney. They took me to see my fir...

A few clicks from the screening of 'Golu Hadawatha' (The Silent Heart) presented by the Lester James Peries and Sumitra Peries Foundation in commemoration of the 104th birth anniversary of Dr. Lester James Peries. Do follow and engage on this space for future events!

GOLU HADAWATHA
THE SILENCE OF THE HEART
1969

"We had Anula Karunatilleke, who, at that time, had played a few roles. She was also in Ran Salu (1967). That is why I took her as the school girl. I think all the expectations of those who had read the book were realised by her superb playing of the character. In the case of the boy there was a controversy that he was not really the romantic type. But that would have distracted from the poignancy of the relationship if we took a very handsome young man. I chose Wickrema Bogoda who came from the Martin Wickremasinghe trilogy. He was a pleasant looking, average school boy playing the wounded young man. The very fact of his ‘ordinariness’ added a lot to what I would call ‘fidelity’ to that kind of relationship. I think what also helped the film was Premasiri Khemadasa’s score which he did for the first time for me. He had this haunting main theme for the two young people ...... "

Extracted from Lester by Lester as told to Kumar de Silva (2007)

Limited seating available for the screening this Saturday! Please inbox us your details if you would like to reserve a seat.

The Iranian film festival 2023 felicitated Mrs. Sumitra Peries' outstanding contribution to Cinema yesterday during its Opening ceremony, by unveiling a photograph of her, signing it and presenting it to the family. Thank you!

Thank you Uditha Devapriya!

Remembering Sumitra Peries And Her Enduring Contribution To Women’s Filmmaking In South Asia Unlike South Asian women filmmakers from her time, including Fatma Begum, Parveen Rizvi, Shamin Ara, and Kohinoor Akhter, Sumitra Peries did not come to the director’s chair as an actress. In that sense, with her education in the West and her editing skills, she was a definitive precursor to the l...

Today, at 5 pm!

Sydney Schanberg - the New York Times reporter whose association with the Cambodian photographer Dith Pran formed the basis of "The Killing Fields" (1984) - saw Lester James Peries's films and wrote on them on September 7, 1970. Schanberg also quotes Ray on Peries correctly: he didn't call Peries his "closest friend East of the Suez", he called him his "only relation east of Suez."

අහස වියෝ ගී ගයන රාත්‍රියේ, හෙළ සිනමාවේ ප්‍රගතිශීලී ලලනා පෞරුෂය නික්ම ගියා ය. එහෙත් ඔබ දේශයට දායාද කළ විශිෂ්ටතම නිර්මාණ සමුච්චය සදාතනිකව දිදුළනු ඇත.

සුමිත්‍රා පීරිස් සිනමා කිවිඳියනි,
ඔබට නිවන් සුව....!

- රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයීය සිංහල නාට්‍ය සංගමය -

Sumitra Peries was one of Sri Lanka's last remaining international figures, as her life and career makes it clear, writes Uditha Devapriya in this week's "Factum Perspective."

https://factum.lk/history-and-culture/factum-perspective-sumitra-peries-a-sri-lankan-woman-of-the-world/

Thank you Kumar De Silva for acknowledging the contribution made by the Peries' to Franco-Sri Lankan relations!

Sumitra, Lester and our French connection Apart from our love for the moving image, the special bond that Sumitra Peries and I shared was France. Centre-stage in this very private equation was the great Lester James Peries. Although clearly a generation apart, the French language and culture was the glue that bonded us since I first met the...

Sumitra: Last Emissary of a Bygone Era Photo courtesy of Daily News My Lunches with Orson is the title of a collection of interviews that Henry Jaglom, a US avant-garde filmmaker, did with Orson Welles over a period of two years (1983-1…

වියෝ ගී ගැයෙනා - ගැහැණු ළමයි 1978 තිරගත වූ දිනය – 1978 මාර්තු 17ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම - ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස් චිත්‍රපට සමාගමතිර රචනය, සංස්කරණය සහ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂණය -...

" සාගර ජලය මදි හැඩුවා ඔබ හන්දා "

කලාකීරීති ආචාර්ය
සුමිත්‍රා පිරිස් මැතිනියනි ,
ඔබ වෙනුවෙන් වියෝ ගී ගැයෙන
අපේ හදවත් වල
ඔබ නමින් පිපුණු ආදර මල්
කිසිදා නොමියෙන වගයි ... . !!