2014 Script Development Fund
LIST Hair of the Dog that Bit YouCategory | Asian Project |
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Project | Hair of the Dog that Bit You |
Director | Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA |
Country | Sri Lanka |
Director's Profile | Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award-winning Sri Lankan director known for his surreal films that erase the borders between fiction and documentary, between cinema and visual art. After finishing his documentary <The Land of Silence>(2002), about the victims of civil war, he made his directorial debut with <The Forsaken Land>(2005), which won the Camera d’Or for best first feature at Cannes. Jayasundara followed this with <Between Two Worlds>(2009), which competed at Venice Film Festival, and has been shown at over 100 festivals internationally. His third feature <Mushrooms>(2011) was filmed in India and went on to be selected for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. In 2012 he was invited to be one of three international directors to produce a film for the Jeonju Digital Project in 2012, for which he made <Light in Yellow Breathing Space>(2012); it was selected for the Film Festival Locarno. |