Animate Her

Anya Ratnayake on the Colombo Wetlands and the Urban Fishing Cat

Assistant Sound Designer

Animated interviews (6 minutes)

The Animate Her Series features the animated interviews of seven inspiring women working in the diverse fields of the arts, sciences and technology in Sri Lanka. The series is directed by Irushi Tennekoon and funded by a grant from the British Council’s Creating Heroines programme.

In this short animated interview, wildlife conservationist Anya Ratnayaka talks about how Colombo is a complex wetland habitat – a fact that is little known to its own residents. The Colombo wetlands prevent floods, acts as a disease control, and is also home to the elusive Fishing Cat!

This series has won numerous international awards, and has been showcased at the Dhaka Arts Festival, Tricky Women Tricky Realities Festival, Agenda14 Film festival, Jaffna international cinema festival, and Beyond Borders Feminist Film festival to name a few.

Lakmini Wijesundara on Building Global Tech Brands

In this short animation, technology entreprenuer Lakmini Wijesundera talks about her passion to start and build innovative IT products and platforms that create a global impact. By sharing her story, Lakmini advises young technology entrepreneurs to embrace risk and bear in mind that luck is derived from hard work.