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Andrew Jayamanne (Andrew Felix Jayamanne) was born on 9 November, 1943 in Negombo, Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan cinematographer. Discover Andrew Jayamanne's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Andrew Felix Jayamanne
Occupation Cinematographer, film director, film producer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 9 November 1943
Birthday 9 November
Birthplace Negombo, Sri Lanka
Date of death 29 August, 2014
Died Place Milan, Italy
Nationality Sri Lanka

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His wife is Beranadeth Thissera

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1943

Andrew Jayamanne ඇන්ඩෘ ජයමාන්න (alternative spelling Andrew Jayamanna, 9 November 1943 – 29 August 2014) was a Sri Lankan cinematographer, and film and television director and producer.

Jayamanne is the eldest of ten children born to Vincent Jayamanne and his wife Beatrice Perera.

He was raised in Periyamulla in Negombo, the town on the Western sea-coast where his father was born.

Jayamanne did his elementary studies at St. Anthony's boys' School, Dalupotha, Negombo.

1955

In 1955 he joined the Archdiocesan College of St.Aloysius, Colombo, with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest.

But due to a health condition, on doctor's advice he had to abandon his studies and engage in manual labour.

While at college, Jayamanne's teachers recognised his love of photography and assigned him to handle the cinema and audio visual equipment in the college.

Later he joined the Radio & Electronics Laboratory at Kotahena.

1962

In 1962, he joined Vijaya Film Studios and Laboratories of Cinemas Limited, at Hendala, Wattala.

In 1962 he started his career as an assistant cameraman at the Vijaya Studios.

As an assistant cameraman and camera-unit in-charge he worked on over 40 feature films, both domestic and international.

This gave him the opportunity to work under many cinematographers and to study film laboratory techniques, sound studio work, film editing, production designing and production management.

While working at Vijaya Studios, Jayamanne met Sri Lankan director Titus Thotawatta.

1970

In 1970, he left Vijaya to join Thotawatta in the production of Haralaksaya, marking his debut as Director of Cinematography.

Jayamanne continued to work as Thotawatta's principle cinematographer through the latter's final film Handaya.

Jayamanne was employed by many other veteran directors, and became a favourite of new directors for their debut projects.

His contribution to the films of Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, Vasantha Obeysekera and Parakrama Niriella were highly acclaimed by cinema critics and Journalists of Sri Lanka.

1972

In 1972, when the State Film Corporation called for registration of cinema technicians, Jayamanne registered as film director, script writer, cinematographer, film editor and production manager.

He is the only person in Sri Lanka to have been registered in five categories.

In 1972, Jayamanne was invited to conduct classes for beginners interested in cinema and television at the Paul VI center, Fort, Colombo, organised by the OCIC Sri Lanka.

He started training with Super 8 format and slide show programs.

Then as VHS came to industry it was introduced to beginners.

He held two short film festivals with his students at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute.

Married in 1972 To Bernadette Tissera.

After marriage they moved to Eattukala, Negombo.

They had 3 sons:

1983

In 1983 Jayamanne had the opportunity to attend a professional video program training offered in Taipei by Santa Clara University.

Jayamanne was subsequently called up by the Television Training Institute, Sri Lanka to train video technicians for Rupavahini and ITN, the two national television channels.

The courses were later extended to train video teams of the Army, Navy, Police, Education, Agricultural, health, and many other government institutes.

1986

In 1986 Andrew Jayamanne was commissioned to train the staff of ITN network studios.

During this course several practical programs were produced.

The long-running ITN serial Kopi Kade is an offshoot of these training classes.

"Kopi Kade" drama was designed to be a low cost a multi-camera production by shooting and editing on line within few hours.

Jayamanne organised another 6 months course for "Television Program Production Training Institute" for Media Centre at Deans Road, Colombo.

Six of these programs were conducted.

1992

During 1992 and 1993, Jayamanne was retained as a visiting lecturer at Sri Jayawardanapura University and Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo.

He extended the video production training classes to remote areas like Trincomalee (three programs), Horuwpatana (one program) and Negombo (two programs).

These were conducted as one week full-time courses.

The students were trained to use available still or mobile phone cameras for creating short films.

2002

In 2002 he was called up by the Vietnam Television channels workers forum to conduct a workshop in Saigon.