Vimukthi Jayasundara
Film director
1977 –
Who is Vimukthi Jayasundara?
Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award-winning Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and visual artist. His first feature, The Forsaken Land won the Caméra d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, making him the only Sri Lankan to win the award. He followed this with Between Two Worlds which got nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival 2009. Vimukthi’s third feature, Mushrooms was filmed in India and went on to be selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2011. In 2012, the Jeonju International Film Festival invited him as one of three international film directors to produce a film for the Jeonju Digital Project 2012 for which he made Light in Yellow Breathing Space.
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- Born
- 1977
Ratnapura - Nationality
- Sri Lanka
- Profession
- Education
- Film and Television Institute of India
- Mahinda College
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on July 23, 2013
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