{"id":10404,"date":"2018-09-25T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2018-09-25T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:38:18","slug":"screening-of-sri-lankan-film-the-frozen-fire-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"Screening of Sri Lankan Film \u201cThe Frozen Fire\u201d in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Film Premiere of Sri Lanka Movie \u201cThe Frozen Fire&#8221;\u00a0directed by renowned Sri Lankan film Director Anuruddha Jayasinghe;\u00a0which is making\u00a0\u00a0its inroad to the nomination\u00a0for the mainstream category in Academy Awards \/ Oscar 2019, is taking place at The Regency Cinema, Norwalk\u00a08,\u00a013917 Pioneer Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650 from September 28th till October 4th 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pulse.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Frozen-Fire-movie-poster1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be 21 screenings at the Regency Theatre, Norwalk and\u00a0Swarna Gunaratne, the\u00a0Consul General of Sri Lanka in Los Angeles\u00a0wishes to take this opportunity to invite you and your community members with their families and friends to watch the film \u201cThe Frozen Fire\u201d in support of\u00a0the efforts in\u00a0getting\u00a0this film qualified to the Academy Awards 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The Frozen Fire\u2019 becomes the first Sri Lankan film to enter the mainstream category for\u2018Best Picture\u2019, Oscars 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The film itself, \u2018The Frozen Fire\u2019, directed by Anuruddha Jayasinghe, outlines the historic yet controversial re-telling of Wijeweera\u2019s life and death, the founding leader of the JVP \u2013 both rebel and politician. The film encompasses Wijeweera\u2019s release from jail and the conflicted twelve years that follow, allowing the audience to view the film from multiple viewpoints including that of his family and close associates. Ariyawansha Dhammage, scriptwriter, includes a tumultuous recount of the events, emphasizing on how their personal and political lives entwined to end only in anguish \u2013 to both themselves and those around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Film Premiere of Sri Lanka&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}