General Information
Completed On: 07 Apr, 2020
Duration: 1 hr 40 min 0 sec
Genres: Feature
Language: sinhalese
Country: Sri Lanka
Submitted By: Christy Shelton Fernando
Festival Rating 7.5
Young Teresa lives in a fishing village of Sri Lanka with her father and younger brother Antony. Middle aged fisherman becomes interested in Teresa. When denied, later brutally rapes her. Teresa tries to avenge, but fails. Antony, later at night sets fire to the boat fisherman was sleeping, instantly killing him, and runs away. Decades later Teresa becomes a successful Gem businesswoman and a respected social worker. She continues her search to find Antony and maintains a shelter for helpless girls. Meanwhile Teresa receives an international award in Nepal. While in Nepal she meets a monk. Later when she visits the temple, she finds paintings drawn by the monk she saw earlier. Paintings resemble her childhood and Teresa realized the monk she saw is her brother Antony. By that time the monk has already retired into wilderness. Teresa makes a difficult journey to find him. She begs him to return home with her, but the monk refuses, saying “He is unable to return, because he is far from achieving his goal of eternal solace”.
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DirectorsChristy Shelton FernandoThe Struggle, The Forbidden Tree, The Firmame
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ProducersSriyani AmarasenaCrossover, Silver Pendent
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ProducersRuwan JayasingheMother
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WritersAruna JayawardhanaAugust Rain
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Key CastSriyani AmarasenaViragaya, Desa Nisa
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Key CastShenali FonsekaWijayaba Kollaya
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Key CastCletus MendisViragaya
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Key CastLakshman MendisThe Firmament
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Key CastIndika Madurage
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Film TypeFeature
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GenresDrama
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Runtime1 hours 40 minutes 0 seconds
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Completion Date07 Apr, 2020
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Production Budget82500 USD
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Country of OriginSri Lanka
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Country of FilmingNepal, Sri Lanka
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Film Languagesinhalese
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Shooting FormatDigital, 4K
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Aspect Ratio16:9
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Sri Amara Films
Sri Lanka: All Rights
Director's Biography
Christy has been working in the field of creative arts for over 30 years as a film maker, a TV director, a script writer, a dramatist, and a writer. He who entered the world of cinema in 1981 through the film ‘The Hunt (Dadayama)’ as its co-script writer and assistant director under veteran film maker Vasantha Obeysekara, has worked for about 10 years at the beginning of his career, as the assistant director of veterans such as Titus Thotatawatta, H.D. Premarathna, Malani Fonseka, Ananda Abeynayaka, Benet Rathnayaka and Bertram Nihal.
Christy, who is qualified in Mass communication and journalism from the university of Sri Jayawardanapura he has been working as an independent creative artist since then. By now he has created 4 feature films, 30 serialized TV drams, 11 one-act tele dramas, semi-feature films, documentary films, TV documentaries, and commercial advertisements.
He, who has worked as a special teacher of mathematics, a text book reviewer of the Govt. educational publications advisory board, a multimedia script writer and program producer at the audio visual unit of the distant education branch of the ministry of education and the program producer of the information division of the North Western provincial council, a guest director at the Selacine TV institute of the Dept. of Information and the Govt. film unit.
Many of his Films, TV dramas and documentaries have won awards at several award festivals local and international.
He has followed several courses in the field of television, stage drama and cinema under distinguished veterans both local and foreign.
