Original upload date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:08:35 GMT
'The World of Peries' converses with the Sri Lankan film maker Lester James Peries on his films, his relationship with Satyajit Ray and the laurels he has achieved. Peries, who started his career as a
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writer in the journal 'Ceylon,' went to London and made two short films that received critical acclaim. He then returned to Sri Lanka and started making documentaries and mythological films. He also made the first Sri Lankan feature film to be accepted for competition at the prestigious Cannes film festival. In the film Peries talks to the camera and discusses his films, his relationship with his contemporaries like Satyajit Ray, the trilogy of films he made, which is often compared with Ray's Apu trilogy.
