My First International Award and first Japan Prize Award for Rupavahini in Proposal division
" Schooling Along Wild Track"
“ වන මං දිගේ අකුරට“
Japan Prize 2013 - The Best TV Program Proposal
This is the story of some children in rural villages of Sri Lanka . This documentary film focuses on their learning from nature with practical engagement facing challenges and taking numerous risks. "Schooling Along Wild Track" will be screened in next year on National television and NHK television in Japan. This documentary film m proposal is selected by the jury because of its outstanding educational quality . Children love nature, it is universal scientific fact and truly it is successful informal educational form which has to be more considered by educational policy makers and designers. This is one of remarkable mile stone of my career which has been opened a way for me to international arena of documentary film making.
This web site reflects my expressions and perception of various subjects that I explore.
I want to share and let other to enjoy that everything I created. Mainly I engage in three fields: Television Production, Photography and writing.
I have my own opinion on contemporary world and its issues. While I think optimistically about the living and life in this world, I always raise a question myself “ is world a better place for living for all”?. If it isn't ,what we could do to make this world as better place for all.
Athula Disanayaka
Vulture and child - Sudan
Photography by Kevin Carter
In March
1993 Carter made a trip to Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering
near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to an emaciated Sudanese toddler. The
girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, whereupon a
vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that
the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting
photograph and chased the vulture away.[5] However, he came under criticism for just photographing — and not
helping — the little girl: Photo of Sudanese girl and vulture
The St. Petersburg Times in
Florida said this of Carter: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the
right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture
on the scene."[6]
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where
it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight
hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had
survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl
had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate
was unknown.
On April 2, 1994 Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture
editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for
photojournalism. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library.
Brave mother of Vietnam war
Photographer: Kyōichi Sawada
War is
disastrous. War is pain. War is inhuman. But from the history war has been
happening.
Vietnam War is such cruelest war of human history that killed more
than three million people. Vietnam War was started in a 1959 and ended in 1975.
American supported South Vietnam battled communist allies supported North
Vietnam for 15 years and the war was ended with Paris peace accord in 1975.
Most significant fact of Vietnam War is that many journalists
impartially reported the dreadful face of war in some extent. Media reports
created riotous atmosphere in United States and it led to build anti war
campaign. Ultimately United States had to end war signing a peace accord.
This horrifying picture signifies the tragic face of Vietnam War.
Photographer Kyōichi Sawada took this daring mother when she was crossing a
river with her kids to escape American Bombs.
Photographer Sawada received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965.
This is an instance to learn the greatness of real photojournalism
Father’s coming home
Soviet Union had captured and detained hundreds of war prisoners
during WW II. Most of war prisoners were members of Hitler’s army. Hundreds of
war prisoners were died in the soviet camps and some of them were released many
years following the war.
This heartrending picture shows the reunion of German
war prisoner with his daughter in 1956.This child had not seen her father since
she was one year old. This humane moment were shot by West German photographer Helmuth Pirath and
this picture won World Press Photo of the Year Award 1956.
Why they refused socialist country
It is
popularly known that hundreds of civilians and soldiers of East Germany (a
former socialist country backed by Soviet Union) crossed the Berlin wall to
reach West Berlin finding refuge. Hundreds of East German people were killed by
East German soldiers when they were crossing the border. There are no records
of people who attempted to go to the East Germany from West Germany. This
historical political phenomenon raises a dramatic question. If the socialism is
the best political system for living why hundreds of people crossed and
arrived west- Capitalist Democratic Germany despite the deadly situation.
This picture was taken on August 15,1961: When
Defecting East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann was jumping
over barbed wire barricade to reach West Germany finding freedom
One Nightmare in Africa
Somalia is one of horrifying blooded land in African continent. It
is most impoverished and constantly suffered from war for more than a half a
century. War lords and some extremist militants have rendered this
country devastated .These barbaric uncivilized, fanatics do not allow even
international organizations to provide food and health to dying children and
women in the country. Children are recruited in to army while hundreds of women
are being raped. There is no law or Justice to protect innocent and minorities.
This helpless children show the present tragic situation of
Somalia.
To know more about Somalia’s present days
Burst of Joy
This is great instance of photojournalism which
depicts the joy of reunion of father with his family after Vietnam War. This picture “Burst of Joy” was taken by Associated
press photographer Sal Veder when this Air Force Fighter Pilot Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm was coming towards his daughter,
three sibling and wife, just after debarked from plane .It was March 17,1973.
This picture won Pulitzer Prize (1974) and it picture
symbolizes the end of USA involvement in the Vietnam War. This is a
testimony to prove the saying “picture
is worth more than 1000 words”.
This Fighter Pilot was captured after his plane was shot down over
Hanoi, Vietnam in 1967 and had been imprisoned or missing ever since. His
daughter had to wait 6 years to reunite with her father. After this teenager
reunited with her father, in the middle of jubilant crowd she
expressed her over joy on behalf of her father, "I just wanted to get to Dad as fast as I
could," , "We didn't know if he would ever come home," "That moment was all our prayers answered,
all our wishes come true."
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