The company has acquired North American rights to the heartwarming, gorgeously lensed Bhutanese film LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM, which is shortlisted for Best International Film at the 2022 Academy Awards. The story of a young teacher sent to teach at the most remote mountain school in the world was written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji.
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The first generation of actors who made their way to the Sri Lankan film industry, hailed, for the most, from suburban, lower middle-class, and Anglicised backgrounds. They entered the industry, despite opposition from their parents, who saw acting as an unworthy, unbecoming profession. Not surprisingly their prospects were limited, and most of them had to learn on their own, often through a patron or a mentor; this was, after all, a medium quite unlike any other, groundbreaking, innovative, and accused then as now of being too Western. Perhaps the latter association unnerved a conservative middle-class who linked it to a Westernised middle-class residing in either Colombo or the immediate periphery.