Saumya Liyanage
Sri Lanka
MCA
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Saumya is a Sri Lanka actor
who completed his MCA at Flinders in 2003. He
was the first recipient of MCA at Flinders and currently working as a
lecturer in drama and theatre at the Department of Drama, University of
the Visual & Performing Arts in Colombo, Sri
Lanka. Saumya has won several Best Actor
Awards and nominations at the national theatre and film festivals.
Best actor awards for theatre include
The Dumb Waiter
by Harold Pinter
in 1994,
Mata Erehiwa Mama in 2001, and
The Typist at the State
Drama Festival in 1999. He won
a Golden
Award for Best Actor for the film
Me Mage Sandai
at the SIGNIS Film Awards in 2003. In
2005 he received a Special Jury Award
for the same film at the Presidential Awards again. The
films he played lead roles in
won international awards. These include
Woosak, awarded
best film at the
Jeonju International film
festival S. Korea 2001/Cinefan award-best feature, Cinefan
international film festival-Delhi 2001,
and Young cinema
award-best feature Singapore 2001 for the film
Me Mage Sandai.
In 2005 his movie
Forsaken Land
won the Camera D, Or at Cannes and the
Best Film Award at the 3rd World Film Festival of Bangkok.
He is now working on his PhD.
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