This book focuses on the life and accomplishments of Sumitra Gunawardena-Peries, Sri Lanka’s first professionally qualified film editor and women director of national and international renown. Commencing with the formative phase of Sinhala cinema, it articulates her work in relation to the socio-economic, political and cultural movements that marked the 1950s and the 1970s and which moreover oriented Sri Lanka’s nascent film industry.
Sumitra Peries : Sri Lankan Filmmaker and Poetess of Sinhala cinema presents an invaluable opportunity for students, specialists and general readers to discover an important chapter in the history of Sinhala cinema, considering that for more than fifty years Sumitra Peries has contributed eminently to the development of cinema both in Sri Lanka and overseas. Her films, beginning with Gehenu Lamai (1978), today rank among the immortals of the Sinhala screen.
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