Prasanna Jayakody finishes the script of ‘Love in the time of Corona’
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‘Love in the time of Corona’, a film script written during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period by award winning filmmaker, teledrama director and playwright Prasanna Jayakody will be ready for filming soon.
A title that was inspired by Nobel prize winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez’s novel “Love in the Time of Cholera”, “Love in the time of Corona” is a story set in the backdrop of Coronavirus pandemic that was spread almost all over the world.
Prasanna is planning to shoot the film as earliest as possible.
Started his career with theatre, Prasanna produced his debut, an absurd drama ‘Sevenali Saha Minissu’ (Shadows and Men) in 1993 and in that year the play won the Best Stage Drama award at the State Drama Festival. Prasanna was just 21 years then.
Next he entered the miniscreen making teledramas that were different to stereotyped soap operas. He directed ‘Nisala Vila’ (The Still Pond) in 1999, ‘Ima Diyamankada’ (At the Crossing) in 2000, ‘Sanda Amawakayi’ (The Moon Eclipsed) in 2002, and ‘Hada Vila Sakmana’ in 2003. Most of these dramas won several state tele awards including the Best Tele Drama of the Year. He won the Best Young Director award at the Sumathi Tele Awards in 1998 for his play ‘Awasana Horawa’ (The Final Hour).
He entered cinema with ‘Sankara’ in 2007 and that film won several awards in both local and international festivals. It won the Silver Pyramid award at the ‘Cairo International Film Festival’ and the Jury special prize at the Turkey Silk Road Film Festival. Prasanna’s second film ‘Karma’, in 2013, was nominated for several international awards. His third film ‘28’ was named the Best Asian Film at the Amsterdam Film Awards in 2014. It also received the Best Director and the Best Actor awards at the SAARC Film Festival in 2018.
His last film ‘Sansare Dadayakkara’ , (Leopard Do Not Bite) was made based on Simon Navagattegama’s novel Dadayakkaraya’s story. It was screened at 20th Busan International Film Festival 2015. The film starred Sanjeewa Upendra, Hemasiri Liyanage, and Christina Britto and it depicted a conflict between a monk and a hunter, giving a ground to a philosophical exploration of death’s place in life.