Lanka Bandaranayke is an award-winning short film producer, director, writer and actor from Sri Lanka. She started her stage drama career in 1998.Since then, she has produced and directed national award-Winning short dramas. Lanka finished her Bachelor of Arts degree (External) in 2016 from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and in 2019 she received the ITEC scholarship to study a filmmaking certificate course at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television School in Kolkata. She is a2021/22Chevening scholarship recipient and is currently doing her master’s in Directing Film and Television at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. Lanka directed, produced, and wrote her first short film ‘Tradition’ in 2016, which  was screened in more than 50 international film festivals–including Open Doors screenings at Locarno Film Festival in 2018–followed by international and national awards. She was a jury and curator for fiction at the Sound & Image Challenge International Festival in 2018 and 2019at Macau. In 2020, Lanka made her short film Inheritance in partnership with the British council Sri Lanka under the Female Filmmakers First program. Since then, she has produced several other short films and her reputation as a young Sri Lankan female filmmaker has been steadily climbing.

Participant in: August 2022 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding