Rajee Samarasinghe

Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He received his BFA from UCSD and his MFA from CalArts. Samarasinghe recently completed his debut (...) feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka. The project has received support from the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, Berlinale Talents’ Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s PRISM program. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, Samarasinghe was also awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2023 and a Yaddo Residency in 2024. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA - Modern Mondays), the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and the Los Angeles Filmforum (2220 Arts), among others. Samarasinghe’s films have been exhibited at many prestigious venues including the Tiger Short Competition at IFFR, New Directors/New Films by MoMA & Film at Lincoln Center, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, BFI London, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival where he received the Tíos Award for Best International Film.