Vimukthi Jayasundara is the internationally acclaimed director of The Forsaken Land (2005), winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2005; Between Two Worlds (2009), in competition at Venice International Film Festival 2009; Mushrooms (2011), shown at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2011; Dark In The White Light (2015), in competition at Locarno Festival 2015; and Her Him The Other (Asoka Handagama, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Prasanna Vithanage, 2017), which screened in the Open Doors at Locarno Festival 2018. He is an educator, was a directing mentor at Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Film Academy 2016, and was also head of Colombo Film & Television Academy in Sri Lanka. His next project, Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars, is produced by House on Fire in Paris.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
