|
Akash Sunethkumara
Akash Sunethkumara (Akash Sk) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, writer and actor.[1] Early lifeAkash Sunethkumara was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is an alumnus of St. Nicholas' International College Negombo and Staffordshire University.[2][3] CareerHigh School JunkiesIn 2016, Sunethkumara formed a filmmaking collective with a group of friends titled High School Junkies. Together, he created his first publicly released short film EIDETIC which was his Masters thesis project.[4][5] A low-budgeted short of $300, EIDETIC screened at various film festivals including San Diego Comic-Con's Independent Film Festival.[6][7] In 2018, he directed a short horror titled The Summoning.[8][9] Later in 2019, he released a mini-follow up to The Summoning titled The Friend which was also published on Crypt TV.[10] Sunethkumara directed The Knight Out in 2020, a project marketed as an "action musical" which merged the concepts of a music video with martial arts action.[11][12] In 2022, Sunethkumara helmed Temporal, a time-travel sci-fi short film about a physicist who races against time to prevent the death of his girlfriend.[13] The film required eight months of work to complete[14] and was experimental to determine how well they could "localize a western sci-fi concept".[15] It was the first project that Sunethkumara and the team had done in collaboration with an external party[16] and also the first project where they collaborated with veteran Sri Lankan actor Lakshman Mendis.[17] Sumner Forbes of Film Threat stated "I was mightily impressed by the production value that Sunethkumara brings to bear in this 30-minute film. The director never loses sight of the film’s strengths, which are the entertaining temporal contradictions that come from leaping back into the recent past, recalling Shane Carruth’s Primer."[18] Sunethkumara collaborated in 2023 with Sri Lankan actress Yureni Noshika on Teddy, a short film that tackled the "constant realities for so many in relationships and marriages not just in Sri Lanka but across the globe".[19] Junkyard TheorySunethkumara started a podcast during the COVID-19 pandemic called Junkyard Theory where he hosts filmmakers from Hollywood on a livestream.[20] The first education platform of its kind in Sri Lanka, it also offers short modular film courses.[21][22] Sunethkumara has hosted prominent names in the industry such as Louis Leterrier, Mike Knobloch, John Toll, Paul Hirsch, Donald Sylvester, Richard Norton, Joel Crawford and Simon Barry.[3][23] Maktüb StudiosIn 2024, Sunethkumara started a new studio with his fiancée, titled Maktüb Studios. The new venture aims to create feature films, moving away from the shorts he created with High School Junkies.[24] Filmography
References
External links |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portal di Ensiklopedia Dunia
