Ms. Chathurika Nimalachandra

Current Position:

• Lecturer – Department of Performing Arts
• Student Councilor – University of Colombo, Sri Palee campus
• Senior Treasurer – “University filmmakers” society

Academic Record

• B.A (Special) in Mass Communication (Uni. of Kelaniya)
• MSSc. Reading In University of Kelaniya
• CTHE (Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education), University of Colombo
• Diploma in Film Directing, National Film Cooperation, Sri Lanka

Previous Professional Positions

• Demonstrator – University of Kelaniya
• Assistant Lecturer- University of Colombo
• Examiner – Open and Distance Learning centre, University of Kelaniya
• Visiting Lecturer – Diploma course, Journalism Unit, University of Colombo
• Trainee – Advertising Department, National Lotteries Board
• Announcer and Script writer in Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
• Treasurer – Federation of University Teachers Association -2014
• Festival coordinator (Horana) –Travelling European Film Festival – 2014

Creative works

• Director -“Animal World” Documentary (2003)
• Director -“My favorite” Short film (2005)
• Director -“Dolls” Short Film (2008)
• Director – “Ignorance” Short film (2010)
• Director – “Kalana Asapuwa”, Official Documentary of University of Kelaniya (2010)
• Director – “VERIFIED thank you” Short Film (2014)
• Casting Assistant – “Machang” Feature film (2006)
• Cinematographer – “Village to City” Short film (2009)

Awards and represented Film Festivals

“My favorite” Short film

• “Berlin Talent campus” Short Film Festival, Germany – 2005
• “Mumbai Film Festival”, India- 2008
• 6th Kolkata International Short Film Festival”, India- 2009
• First Place (internal entries) – “Short stamp” Film Festival – Department of Mass communication, University of Kelaniya -2008.
• Best seven films at the Short Film Festival – National Film Corporation in 2007
• Silver medal – “Television state Award Ceremony”- Ministry of Cultural Affairs.- 2009
• Best Short film -“Rasa Kalana” Inter Faculty Cultural Program, University of Kelaniya,2006
  “French Embassy Short film festival”- (Sri Lanka) – 2007.

“Dolls” Short film

• Merit award in “Bonsoir short film day” short film – France Embassy of Sri Lanka- 2010.
• “1st Youth New Wave International Short Film Festival”- (Sri Lanka) – 2008
• “6th Kolkata International Short Film Festival”, India -2009.
• Dhaka International short film festival, Bangladesh – 2011

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

International Conferences

• The impact of pornographic web pages towards young generation of Sri Lanka. – 2nd International Symposium of the Sabaragamuwa University.
• “A Communicative study about the professionalism and practical usage in photo journalism” (with special reference to the reportage of incidents of bomb explosions targeting Southern civilians.)- International symposium of university of Kelaniya
• Prassanna Vithanage’s Films and the Cinematic Language based on Akasa Kusum Film. International conference of the Sri Palee Campus.
• Archaeological news reporting .Special reference to Sri Lankan and Indian news papers. – 3rd international congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology, University of Kelaniya.

Local Conferences

• “Building at women’s image through Sri Lankan cinema”-research (with reference to Cinema at Asoka Hadagama). – Center for the Women’s Research.
• Trends of Sri Lankan new filmmakers in Cinema.(Specially to wining from cost of production) – Annual research symposium 2008, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya
• Comparative Study of heroic film tradition in Sri Lanka. – Annual research symposium 2008, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya.
• Media Usage of the University Students. (A Study based on Media Students),Annual research symposium 2009, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya.
• A content analysis on social reality in selected 10 Sri Lankan short films- Annual research symposium, Royal Asiatic Society.

Other Researches

• T.B. (Tuberculosis) Research launched by Government health research association
• Baseline survey on the effects of the Tsunami Disaster launched by presidents Secretary Council.
• Media rating survey launched by Research center for Social Sciences University of Kelaniya.

Book Chapters

• “කෙටි චිත්‍රපට මධ්‍යයේ විකාශනය” – “Sanjanani” magazine, 2007, Department of Mass Communication. University of Kelaniya
• “සිනමා මධ්‍යයේ තරුණ මැදිහත්වීම ” – “Sarsavi Leka” magazine, 2011, faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya
• “ප්‍රකාශන නිදහස සහ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෆාර් පනාහි”– Nidahas Madya magazine, Department of Government information.

Research Interests

• Culture and Film Production
• Feminism and Cinema
• Visual Research

Contact Details:

• Email – cnimalachandra@gmail.com
• Phone – (094) 71 4492908