Award-winning filmmaker, actor, and scriptwriter, Tissa Abeysekara passed away at the Colombo National Hospital following a brief illness. He was also a political activist, a critic and an academic.

Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara, my school mate at Dharmapala Vidyalaya Pannipitiya in the early 1950’s, and since then my friend for nearly six decades has departed, leaving an indelible impression ...

Popular cinema Critic and writer Ajith Galappatty recently launched a comprehensive book on the late Tissa Abeysekara who excelled as a distinguished filmmaker, scriptwriter, actor, critic and ...

Tissa Abeysekara, award winning script writer, filmmaker, actor, critic, academic and administrator who bid farewell to the nation last Wednesday is an irreplaceable loss to the country’s cinema and ...

Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara – my schoolmate at Dharmapala Vidayala, Pannipitiya, in the early 1950s, and my lifelong friend for nearly six decades – has departed, leaving an indelible impression ...

Late filmmaker, award winning script writer, scholar and cinema Guru, Tissa Abeysekera will be remembered at a ceremony tittled “Sameepa Rupa” by the Tele Nirmanawedinge Sangamaya. ‘Tissa Abeysekera ...

My bosom friend Tissa Abeysekara, his family and I had planned a very different celebration for the day on which he would have achieved the Biblical span of three score years and ten had he yet been ...

The Sri Lankan film director and writer, Tissa Abeysekara, is one of our greatest storytellers in both Sinhala and English. Two of the best examples are his short novels, Bringing Tony Home, published ...

In the fine U.S. debut of Sri Lankan filmmaker and author Abeysekara, who writes in English, four contemplative stories offer four middle-aged narrators' childhood reflections, with richly varied ...