Documentary
The Meeting in
the sky (2025)
A celebration of Colombo’s wildlife, created in collaboration with third-generation kite artisans from Colombo. Led by the artistic vision of KumKum Fernando, with project curation and visual documentation by Nuwan, and support from Cinnamon Life, this extraordinary display brought over 2,000 handcrafted kites to life in January 2025. More than just an exhibit, The Meeting in the Sky is a creative journey honoring Sri Lanka’s artistry and natural beauty. This unique installation, crafted with traditional kite makers, features kites that embody Colombo's rich biodiversity.
Creative Director / Designer - Kumkum Fernando
Illustrator - Luongdoo
Kite Artistan - Kavishka Gayashantha
Production Coordinator / Visual Documentation - Nuwan Attanayake
Creative Agency - Ki
Client - Cinnamon Life
Documentary
ELE ELE (2025)
Yet another bold collaboration with KumKum Fernando, sparked by a daring idea—what if we could capture the true essence of the jungle? Forests, rain, earth, and elephants. Nuwan began from scratch, researching how to bring this vision to life—exploring the science behind it, coordinating with local government bodies to secure a natural material no one had ever requested before, and orchestrating the logistics to source it in the right condition until the distillation provides the drops of this essence of the jungle. For him, it’s a celebration of curating the unthinkable, with a "Clink!"—here’s to the unseen and unheard that lies ahead, a journey that encapsulates both mystical and exhilarating.
Creative Director / Designer - Kumkum Fernando
Created in partnership with - ITI The Industrial Technology Institute
Production Curation / Visual Documentation - Nuwan Attanayake
Creative Agency - Ki
Client - Cinnamon Life
Product Development
Amuthu (2024)
Amuthu is a mission of two friends, Nuwan and Shehan, whose fascination developed through observations of their surrounding island ecosystems. They make films together and also make things and grow plants. Established in 2023, Amuthu envisions a lifelong journey with mycellium, from food and medicine to materials. They see the potential of mycellium in global society in the decades to come. ‘There is an entire world of new food and material waiting to be discovered’ is their ground zero that keeps them moving us to produce more with less.
Product Development
Kendi
Embracing a profound sense of fiber-conciousness, ‘Kendi’ was setup in 2023, by Nuwan, Having a picture of a day today agriculture bi-products and invasive plants seamlessly evolving into ordinary materials like paper and composites, and extraordinary new designs of contemporary use. Commitment is on reintroducing everyday plant materials into everyday life in society, unlocking their incredible versatility that will shape our material future.
Documentary
Hardboiled Wonderland
HARD BOILED WONDERLAND SRI LANKA presents a political form of concert as a reaction to some of the pressing societal, social and ecological issues in Sri Lanka. 4 Sri Lankan musicians, 4 German musicians along with Nuwan and Shehan were travelling around the island, reaching true local centric audience with the intentions of opening up a conversations in groundlevels where the voices are unheard of.
Co Producer: Sumudi Suraweera, Sebastian Gramss
Musician / Composer: Jonas Engels, Christian Lorenzen , Max Hilbrand, Sarani Perera, Amila Sandaruwan, Hania Luthufi
Artistic and executive producer and content manager: Ana Lakcevic
Video Documentation: Nuwan Attanayake, Shehan Obeysekara
Documentary
Untapped ( 2023 )
Filmed and Directed by Nuwan Attanayake, UNTAPPED charts the rise of a growing bamboo movement in Sri Lanka, featuring international bamboo expert Jörg Stamm.
Sound by Sarani PereraProduced by Una Bambu
Documentary
Where we're from (2019)
An ode to friendship doing what we love unplanned,
the sights and the sounds we shared,
now we share it with you.
Film by Nuwan Attanayake & Shehan Obeysekere
Audio Mix & Master - Sarani Perera
Advertiesment
MAS Twinery (2022)
This campaign focuses on inclusivity in the MAS product range by understanding the global market. Creative was from iFilm Sri Lanka.
The line production work was facilitated by
Carbon Date Films.
Directed by - Jason Rajasinghe
Produced by - iFIlm Sri Lanka
Client - MAS holdings
Documentary
Abundance (2017)
This is an exploration of traditional agricultural systems in Sri Lanka and the impacts of industrialization on the island's cultivation.
'Abundance' provides a reflection on the degradation of this once plentiful land.
Film by - Nuwan Attanayake &
Yashodha Suriyapperuma
Commissioned by - Colomboscope 2017
Live Music Reels
OwlTree-O /
Serendib Sorcerers
Tattu Pattu is a series curated by Goethe Institut Sri Lanka together with a curatorial team representing the local and international
music scene.
This was once again a collaboration with a couple of contemporary bands - Serendib Sorcerers and Owl Tree-O to produce a series of reels.
Film by - Nuwan Attanayake &
Shehan Obeysekere
Project Documentary
Colomboscope (17',19')
Colomboscope has been a multi-disciplinary arts festival organised by Goethe Institut along with the support of EUNIC.
In the years 2017 and 2019, Nuwan collaborated with Yashodha, in producing festival aftermovies along with other associated festival productions.
Film by - Nuwan Attanayake &
Yashodha Suriyapperuma
Live Music Reels
Sub Sequence /
Pettah Interchange
Goethe institut, Border movement and Janbutek recording has been busy making Audio-Visual performances and festivals in Colombo’s arts scene.
Over the years, Nuwan and Yashoda have been producing content with these teams to bring out the visual storytelling aspects to these AV shows
Films by - Nuwan Attanayake & Yashodha Suriyapperuma
Music, Mix & Mastering by - Asvajit Boyle - Jambutek Recordings
Travel Music Reels
Quick & Dirty
In 2017, a bunch of Sri Lankan and Indian artists got together to do a mini tour around the island.
This journey brought together the many aspects of music, film and performative pieces.
Film by - Nuwan Attanayake
Artists - Imaad Majeed, Larry T Hill, Ramya Pothuri, Messmonte & awkwardbong
Photography Research
Angampora :
A Nations Legacy (2016)
Project Angampora has been a research and photographic initiation which brought this Sri Lankan traditional martial arts into the global limelight.
Nuwan was part of this project as a filmmaker,
producer and a designer.
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