Sulochana Peiris
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Hashtagged People’s Movement Overturns Regime Sri Lanka
Year:
2023
Length:
51 min
Country:
Sri Lanka
Language:
English
Director:
Sulochana Peiris
SYNOPSIS
This documentary looks at Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya (struggle) protests from a movement building and mobilisation perspective and centres around interviews with several key core activists belonging to different ethnic, linguistic, and professional backgrounds. The interviews were carried out in two rounds – the first, while the Galle Face occupation was ongoing and the second round in January 2023, several months after the occupation was called off in the face of increasingly brutal state repression. The leaders also discuss how they define and are working towards a “system change” which they envisioned to achieve through the movement
about the director
Sulochana Peiris is a documentary maker, researcher, and writer who is currently based in Sri Lanka. She has over 20 years of making short videos and documentaries on women, peace, and security, conflict, war, peacebuilding, reconciliation, human rights, youth, etc in Sri Lanka, other south asian and southeast asian contexts. Her latest documentary on Sri Lanka’s 2022 protest movement premiered in Utrecht, the Netherlands during an academic conference organized by the University of Utrecht in June, 2023. Since then she also screened it at the University of Innsrbruck, Austria. In October and November , 2023, Sulochana will be screening this documentary at several universities in across the UK.
