IFTA win for Lankan-Irish Shauna
By Namali Premawardhana “Dembaya,” an Irish short animated film produced by Sri Lankan-Irish Shauna Cullen won Best Short Film (Animation) at the IFTA (Irish Film and Television Academy) Awards in February 2025. “It has been such an amazing experience!” Shauna wrote in an email to the Sunday Times. “The room was bursting with the biggest [...]
Telling their stories, being themselves
An IRIS Sisters’ initiative gives 18 young women the opportunity to make documentary films By Arrenga Nadaraja The IRIS Sisters began in October 2017, the brainchild of Dishani Jayaweera, director of Centre for Peace Building and Reconciliation (cpbr) in Sri Lanka and her team. “Working with young women to produce films to tell their stories [...]