“Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” on a journey from West Coast to East Coast in USA
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Prasanna Vithanage’s internationally acclaimed award winning feature film “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” (With You, Without You) will participate in three film festivals across continental USA from west coast to east coast. The first stop will be at Tiburon Film Festival in California from April 10- 18. Next it will feature at Silkscreen Film Festival at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania from April 25 to May 2. “With You, Without You” will conclude the US festival with the screening at popular New York Indian film festival from May 5– 10. With the previous screenings at Montreal (Canada), Vancouver (Canada), San Francisco and Chicago, “With You, Without You” became the first Sri Lankan movie to be chosen to feature in 7 major film festivals in North America.
“Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka” is a bilingual film (Sinhala/Tamil) and it stars Award winning stage actor Shyam Fernando, award winning 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 all contributed to “Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka”. Daminda D. Madawala is the assistant director and Ebert Wijesinghe handed 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.