Santa Barbara, CA, USA (October 3, 2023)<\/strong> – Colombo, Sri Lanka and Santa Barbara, CEYIFF is the only film festival in the world to feature Sri Lankan films outside Sri CEYIFF 2022 Seventeen awards were given in 2022, with the Newspaper taking the prize for Best The Only Festival to Feature Sri...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60614","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=60614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60615,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60614\/revisions\/60615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCalifornia are separated by 9,301 miles and 12.5 time zone hours. However, Sri
\nLanka is once again coming to Santa Barbara in the form of the 2nd Ceylon
\nInternational Film Festival (CEYIFF) which will run from Monday, October 23 to
\nSaturday, October 28, 2023.<\/p>\n
\nLanka. For those seeking cinematic adventure, CEYIFF 2023 offers 4 feature films
\nand 15 accompanying shorts selected by a jury of industry professionals from
\nCalifornia and Sri Lanka. The broad array of films includes features from Sri
\nLanka, Japan and USA as well as fiction, documentaries and animation. The
\nprogram will include a classic of Sri Lankan cinema, The Rainy Day, by Bhadraji
\nMahinda Jayathilaka, who will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award
\nduring the Awards Gala.<\/p>\n
\nThe 1st CEYIFF ran from June 10 to June 12, 2022 in Santa Barbara. In recognition
\nof this groundbreaking achievement, Congressperson Salud Carbajal issued a
\nCongressional Certificate commemorating CEYIFF\u2019s launch in Santa Barbara. A
\nnumber of local elected officials attended the opening night reception which
\nincluded remarks from the Sri Lankan Consul General to the United States.
\nMoreover, the 1st CEYIFF was a cinematic success, featuring interesting and
\naccomplished films from Sri Lanka, ranging widely in substance and style, from
\nsearing social drama to supernational thriller. It was an eye-opening excursion
\nthrough a rarely seen but vital and growing component of world cinema.<\/p>\n
\nPicture (link to review: CEYIFF Film Review: The Newspaper – Edhat).
\nThe pandemic combined with economic circumstances prevented artists from
\ntraveling to Santa Barbara. However, an awards ceremony was held in Colombo,
\nSri Lanka on February 10, 2023 with the US Ambassador to the United States in
\nattendance along with other key leaders in the Sri Lankan film industry. The
\nawards were presented in collaboration with the Cinestar Foundation\u2019s founder
\nand president Dr. Jayantha Dharmadasa and under Dr. Kishu Gomez’s leadership
\nCEYIFF 2022 received international press attention: News & Blogs \u2013 Ceylon
\nInternational Film Festival (ceyiff.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"