Who is Indika?

 

 

Indika Udugampola is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, who has been living in France since 2008. He started his professional carrier as a journalist, serving as the Sri Lankan coordinator of Radio Veritas Asia. He directed his first tele-feature-series “Kokila Sandwaniya” (Symphony of Cuckoos) in 2003, inspired by the French novel “La Symphonie Pastorale” by Andre Gide. He then directed a short film series for television “Rathi Virathi” (Black & Black), inspired by the short stories of Italian writer, Alberto Moravia. He has written and directed fourteen short films and six documentaries, most of which have been selected at numerous film festivals. He also won the award for the Best Film Critic in SIGNIS Film Festival in 2003.

 

In 2007, he was selected for an artist residential program on cinema offered by Cultural section of the UNESCO organization and accordingly awarded a scholarship at McColl Center in North Carolina, USA.

 

After earning a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in Film Directing, he obtained the French Proficiency Advanced Diploma in 2013. Indika founded the Hors Cadre Image to initiate making independent films.

 

The Night is Still Young (La nuit est encore jeune) is his first feature film.