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HECL - TV Times Quiz
'Buy only Originals'
The pioneering promoter of the original DVD, VCD and VHS cassettes in Sri Lanka, Home Entertainment & Communications Ltd. (HECL) joined hands with TV Times to promote popular movies and music on original VCD, DVD and VHS.

This will boost the copyrights and intellectual properties of artistes, actors, actresses, lyric writers, music and film directors, producers etc.

'TV Times & Entertainment' in collaboration with Home Entertainment and Communications Ltd. (HECL), launched a monthly quiz in September 2002 to help the project "Buy Originals Only" and this is the seventh leg of the competition.

To win an original VCD disc or original VHS cassette of your choice from Home Entertainment & Communications Ltd. (HECL), all you need to do is to answer the March 2003 Question in the Coupon on TV Times( Given below) and send it pasted on a post card to 'Home Entertainment & Communications Ltd., Liberty Cinemas Building, 35, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 3 on or before March 31.
The answer to the March quiz will be published on the first Sunday of April 2003.

The lucky winner of this Quiz will be entitled to one original VCD disc or one original VHS cassette of he/her choice from Home Entertainment & Communications Ltd. (HECL).

The lucky winner of the February quiz is S. D. Jayawardene of 67A, Heenpandala, Galle. Mr. Jayawardene could call over with his ID Card and collect the prize from the above address between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on any weekday.

Jaffna- Colombo 'Reel Peace'

Screenwriters from Jaffna will join their southern counterparts in Colombo this month for a workshop in "Collaborative Writing for Television and Film." This will be the first venture of its kind since the beginning of the conflict and will be held at the Sri Lankan Media Training Institute from March 18 to 24.

The participants will be given the skills to take their united stories to a mass audience both within Sri Lanka and the rest of the world. The workshop will complete the first stage of Scriptnet's Reel Peace project which will oversee the production of three Sri Lankan short films on the theme of 'War and Reconciliation' over the coming year.

Both the Tamil and Colombo teams of writers, have formerly been selected from almost 300 applications to participate in screen writing, training workshops organized by UK charity Scriptnet in Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna.
The four day workshop will be led by John Foster, MA., Screen writing tutor from the University of Bournemouth in the south of England. The writers will cover advanced screnwriting skills with particular focus on team or collaborative writing for TV serials and series.

The workshop is funded by the British Council with the support of Jaffna University, the Ministry for Mass Communications, the Commonwealth Media Development Fund and the SLMTI.

The winning scripts from the Scriptnet Colombo/Kandy screen writing workshops conducted in 2002 have just been announced this week. The top five marking scripts were o Darkness at Dawn(Ananda Abeynayake) o Motherland (Rajeev Ananda) o Father and Son (Kasinathar Gnanadas) o Mother means Love (Prasanna Jayakody) and o Cassim is Dead (Fahima Rizuan).

Irish Festival at Trans Asia Hotel
The celebration of St. Patrick's Day and Irish feast will come alive at the La Tennesse of Trans Asia Hotel from March 14 to 17.

Aer Lingus Musicians, to sing Irish songs, will be specially flown in from Ireland for this festival.

The Aer Lingus Musical society, which was formed in 1962 and performed in many countries, composes Irish music, songs and dance. Irish fans can try out the Dublin Cuddle, Irish stew, Shepherds Cheddar Pie and a range of Irish specialties to the tunes of Aer Lingus Musicians at the Trans Asia Hotel.

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