SIGNIS honours for ‘Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka’ in Italy
View(s):Prasanna Vithanage’s film “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” (With You, Without You) wins the SIGNIS Award at 23rd African Asian Latin American film Festival in Milano.
The seventh feature film by Vithanage, ‘Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka’ won the SIGNIS Award at the 23rd African Asian Latin American film Festival of Milano held in Italy. The prize was awarded by the World Catholic Association for communication. This year’s festival showcased more than 150 films including feature films, Documentaries and short films from three continents.
In addition to this latest award in Italy, “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” won the NETPAC award and Cyclo d’Or for the best film at the Vesoul Asian Film Festival, France. Lead actress Anjali Patil won the best actress award at the 43rd International Film Festival of India last year.
“Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” is a bilingual film (Sinhala/Tamil) which stars Shyam Fernando, Indian actress Anjali Patil, Wasantha Moragoda and Maheshwari Ratnam. M.D. Mahindapala (Cinematographer), A. Sreekar Prasad (Editor), Lakshman Joseph De Saram (Music Composer), Tapas Nayak (Sound Designer) and Rob Nevis (Production Designer) have contributed to “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka”. Daminda D. Madawala is the assistant director and Ebert Wijesinghe handled the make-up. Kalpana Ariyawansa and Vindana Ariyawansa contributed as Line Producers.
A co-production between India and Sri Lanka, Lasantha Nawarathna and Mohamed Adamaly produced “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka”. Rahul Roy, Iranthi Abeysinghe, Sunil Fonseka and Nadira Adamaly joined as the executive producers.
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