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 ...

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 ...

The launched of this book titled ‘Tissa-Tissa’ comprising 280 rare photographs, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Tele Makers Guild. It focuses on the multi-faceted aspects of the late ...

He captured a culture in two languages and two media forms. Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara: Deshabandu Dr. Tissa Abeysekara – my schoolmate at Dharmapala Vidayala, Pannipitiya, in the early 1950s, ...

I first met Tissa Abeysekara way back in 1978 at a seminar on the theme “From Novel to Film” I had organized at The American Centre in Kandy. Over the years, our acquaintance blossomed into an ...

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 ...

Veteran film personality Tissa Abeysekara passed away at 5.45 p.m. at the National Hospital in Colombo yesterday. He was admitted to the cardiology unit of the hospital and was transferred to the ...

Tissa Abeysekara, . . North Atlantic/Scala, $14.95 (211pp) ISBN 978-1-55643-757-1. In the fine U.S. debut of Sri Lankan filmmaker and author Abeysekara, who writes in English, four contemplative ...

Police are searching for two suspects involved in the killing of the mother-in-law of film director and script writer, late Tissa Abeysekara at her residence in Rajagiriya. Police say according to ...