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 ...
