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Rajee Samarasinghe (b. 1988)

Birthplace:
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Born:
January 12, 1988

Biography from TheMovieDB

Rajee Samarasinghe (b. 1988) is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in Sri Lanka. His work tackles contemporary sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of his own identity and the deconstruction of ethnographic practices. Rajee received his BFA from the University of California San Diego in 2010 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2016. He is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," inspired by his childhood experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war—the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant.  Rajee's work has been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, REDCAT, Media City Film Festival, Message to Man, Havana Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, & Chicago Underground Film Festival, among many others. He's received the "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, an "Audience Award" at CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, and a "Jury Award" at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.

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Film Production

Assistant Camera:
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars

Cinematography:
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2021  everyday star

Director:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Director of Photography:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Editor:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Original Music Composer:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Producer:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Production Design:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Screenplay:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Special Effects:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Writer:
2014  The Queen of Material
2014  Untitled (Horse)
2015  black widow summer set
2016  If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home
2017  The Spectre Watches Over Her
2018  Foreign Quarters
2018  The Exile (Pituvahalaya)
2019  Untitled
2020  Imitation of Life
2020  Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020  The Eyes of Summer
2021  Misery Next Time
2021  Show Me Other Places
2021  everyday star
2021  the past
2022  Strangers
2023  Lotus-Eyed Girl
????  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

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