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

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As the Baltimore, Maryland based filmmaker Armando Valle, after seeing the final/2008 version of Date Number One in Silver Spring, Maryland at Lo-Def/Jackie's Back Room in late May 2008 described the movie in his blog, Date Number One is "a charming, DIY feature romantic-comedy presenting a refreshing, positive outlook on the trials of contemporary dating. A multi-ethnic cast, among them a seductive Indian man, a french-speaking hottie, a curvy blonde seeking a blissful three-way bi-sexual relationship, a Buddhist African-American woman, and a lonely career Ninja seek love in the modern city. The episodic film, completed through a long period by Ekanayake, exhibits a vibrant 'can do' attitude that's spreading along the world of independent cinema today." From the beginning of the project the goal was to create a D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself or real independent, completely outside of the limitations and control of Hollywood or indiewood) Populist (a film that may be ...