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What happens when a small and culturally diverse group is flown in from different parts of the world, put up in a comfortable hotel, fed well — and mandated to watch two or three dozen excellent films and asked to come up with a selection of ‘the best of the best’?
That pretty much sums up the experience of the final jury process of international film festivals that have a competitive element. The festival secretariat lines up the logistics but entrusts all the rankings and selections of entries to an independent jury – which typically serves without pay, and works long and hard.
Hosting the Wildscreen Film Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which ended last evening, brought back memories from eight years ago, when I served on the global jury of Wildscreen festival in Bristol in October 2000. It wasn’t just the turn of the millennium that made the festival especially remarkable that year. In some ways, Wildscreen 2000 marked a significant change in how wildlife and natural history films are assessed and honoured.
I’ve done this a few times before and since 2000 — among them Earth Vision (Tokyo) in 1993 and Japan Wildlife Festival (Toyama) in 2003. But being on Wildscreen jury was special, for it’s considered to be the world’s
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By Sarath Amunugama –
Dr.Sarath Amunugama
I consider Mr. Chandraprema’s book “Gotas War” which was launched last week to be the finest and most comprehensive description and analysis of the fratricidal ethnic conflict which affected Sri Lanka for over six decades.
It is also a detailed analysis of the military operations that successfully terminated the armed uprising of the terrorist organization known as the LTTE.
Very soon we will be celebrating the third anniversary of that victory. The Author Chandraprema recreates comprehensively for us the battles which began in Mavil Aru in the East and ended at the Nandikadal lagoon in the North with the deaths of nearly all the top leadership of the LTTE.
I must begin with the title of the book “Gotas War”. When you read the book you learn that it does not mean that Gota won the war single handedly. In fact it describes how it was a joint effort from the President of Sri Lanka down to the most recently recruited foot soldier. Each one played his part.
What the title means is that the war with the LTTE is looked upon, through the eyes of one of its most significant players, namely Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the battle-hardened soldier who became Secretary of Defense and therefore the lynchpin between the country’s ex