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About the Writer/Director of Date Number One, Sujewa Ekanayake













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Sujewa Ekanayake

Photos Copyright 2008 Sujewa Ekanayake/Wild Diner Films

Films

Recent features:
*Brooklyn Fantastic, feature comedy, 2009-2010
(in production as of 12/17/09, to be released in spring 2010)
- Producer, Writer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor
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*Unlimited Dreamtime (aka The Screening), feature documentary, 2009-2010
(in production as of 12/17/09, to be released in winter 2010)
- filmed under 2 Week Film Project guidelines
- Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor
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*Indie Film Blogger Road Trip, feature documentary, 2008
- Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor

* Date Number One, feature comedy, 2006 (re-cut in 2008 for the DVD release in late February 2009)
- Producer, Writer, Director, Videographer, Editor, Distributor

* Capital Heartbreak & Sweetness: 17 DC Poets, 1 hour long documentary/performance video featuring DC area poets, 2002
- Director, Videographer, Editor

Recent shorts:

* Magnus & The Air Quotes Woman (2007), short - 5 mins., available at Funny or DIE on the web, will be available on a DVD in 2009

* Rock Collection (filmed in 2007), short, in post, will be released in 2009

Earlier work:

* Wild Diner (1999), feature - 70 mins., might be re-edited and released as a short at some point in the future or maybe released as originally screened on a future DVD

* Fresh Coffee (1992), short - 15 mins., might be made available on a DVD in the future

Blogging

I blog at several places, including at DIY Filmmaker until end of '09, & then mostly at Filmmaker Sujewa

Other info.

I live in Brooklyn, New York and travel often to DC/Maryland. Right around mid-30's in age. Born in Sri Lanka & have been living in the US, mostly in the DC area, since the mid-80's. Moved to Brooklyn in December 2008.
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So that's the short bio & resume. A more detailed one may be coming soon.
Contact: wilddiner@aol.com

- Sujewa

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Contact

Sujewa Ekanayake Producer, writer, director, & distributor of Date Number One wilddiner@gmail.com

Blog/site for the December screenings of DNO in Brooklyn

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Date Number One December screenings at Aeon Logic Art Gallery, NYC

DATE NUMBER ONE a comedy about several first dates a film by sujewa ekanayake Every Wed & Fri of December (except 12/25 Fri) 7 PM (doors at 6, opening act at 6:30) Aeon Logic Art Gallery 4 Malcolm X Boulevard (Malcolm X & Broadway, Bed-Stuy, nearest subway: Kosciuzko Street on the J line, map ) Brooklyn, New York 11221 $5 * Event contact: Sujewa Ekanayake, 240-354-3394, wilddiner@aol.com Website: http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/ * About Date Number One : A writer, A ninja, A woman who is working on saving the world, and a guy who works at a bookstore searching for love in DATE NUMBER ONE http://datenumberone08.blogspot.com/ A movie by Sujewa Ekanayake Date Number One , a comedy about several first dates, is made up of 4 different stories: Story 1 - Start Over, about a writer who tries to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Story 2 - Just Another Ninja Searching For Love, about a ninja who goes on a blind date (ninja is played by John Stabb Schroeder from the DC punk