Tissa Abeysekara
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Deshanabu Tissa Abeysekara (7 May 1939 – 18 April 2009) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker, writer, and screenplaywright.
He is best known as both a script writer and a film producer.
In 1996, Tony Home's book Bringing Tony Home received the prestigious Gratiaen Award for English new creative writing.
He was the chief curator of FOSWAL in Sri Lanka and was honoured with the SAARC Literary Award.
Personal life
Tissa Ananda Abeysekera was born Tissa Ananda Gunaratne de Fonseka, a railroad town 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Colombo, to Sir Arthur Solomon de Fonseka and Agnus de Fonseka (Nee Rupesighe). Mudaliyar Carolis de Fonseka's grandfather was Tissa, and he was the great-grandson of Gate Mudaliyar Solomon de Fonseka. He grew up in his ancestral home, Greenlands, in Havelock Town, Colombo. Justice E.R. Tissa's paternal uncle (fathers brother) was Tissa. de Fonseka, QC, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court and Acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in 1960 and 1962. Tissa's father was also cousins with the late Sir Susantha de Fonseka, who was also Tissa's Godfather. In 1949, Tissa's father declared bankruptcy. Tissa was not allowed to school until age 11. He received his formal education at Dharmapala Vidyalaya in Pannipitiya, where he went on to captain the schools soccer team and be its head prefect.
He was married to Asanka Monarvilla, and the couple have one daughter, Svetlana, and one son, Dimitra.
Career
Abeysekera began writing in Sinhala when he was still a schoolboy, and in the Dinamina and Janatha national newspapers, he had published some short stories. He released a collection of Sinhala short stories, which received rave feedback, bringing him praise from Ediriweera Sarachchandra.
In the early 1960s, a chance meeting with Dr. Lester Perries attracted him to the cinema, where he stayed for the next 40 years. Following the screenplay he wrote for Welikatara, Tissa was welcomed to scriptwriting and acknowledged as Sri Lanka's top screenplay, dialogue, and script writer, he earned co-credit for the bulk of Perries' films. Nidhanaya and Welikathara were two of the main screenplays. In addition,, he made over 40 documentaries for the Government Film Unit before deciding to join Karumakrayo as a resident filmmaker based on Gunadasa Amarasekara's controversial book. Mahagedara (1983) and Viraga (1988), based on Martin Wickramasinghe's book, were followed by Viragaya (1988), which was deemed unfilmable: Viragaya is one of the finest Sinhala films ever made.
In 1978, Abeysekara received the Presidential Award for Best Supporting Actor for five minutes in the blockbuster film Veera Puran Appu's five-minute role as "Kuda Thero." In 1996, his novella Bringing Tony Home was nominated for the best piece of Creative Writing in English by a Sri Lankan resident. He continued writing mostly in English, bringing out another series of three stories, In My Kingdom of the Sun and the Holy Peak.
He served as chairman of the National Film Corporation from 1999 to 2001. He was subsequently the director of the Sri Lankan Television Training Institute. As a council member of the University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, and a trustee of the National Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, Abeysekara served on the Boards of the Sri Lankan Rupavahini Corporation and the Aesthetic Institute of Sri Lanka, both affiliated to the University of Kelaniya. He was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Colombo in 2007.