How Lanka Bandaranayake is disrupting Sri Lanka’s male-dominated film industry
In Sri Lanka, fewer than 1% of filmmakers behind the camera are women. This reality means many perspectives remain unseen, but Chevening alumna Lanka Bandaranayake is rewriting that script.
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