An award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker credits the Catholic Church’s media initiatives with having developed and improved the country’s film industry. Prasanna Vithanage, who won this year’s SIGNIS Sri ...

Church-run SIGNIS-Sri Lanka has called for entries for its cinema and television awards to be held in November. Local films and TV episodes shown in 2015 will be considered for the SIGNIS-Sri Lanka ...

A priest famed for his contributions to Sri Lankan cinema and Catholic communications died on June 16. Father Ernest Poruthota, 88, was born on Aug. 31, 1931, in Marawila and was ordained on Feb. 2, ...

(AP) Sri Lankan diplomats are working to block a British-made documentary about the Asian country’s civil war from being shown on the sidelines of a United Nations human rights meeting this week, ...

In a move to bolster film preservation across borders, India‘s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project ...