Rehan Mudannayake

Rehan Mudannayake is an award-winning film director, actor and writer. He stars as Shehan Soyza in Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta's upcoming feature film Funny Boy, based on Shyam Selvadurai's acclaimed novel. The film was picked up by Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Releasing and is currently streaming on Netflix. It was Canada's official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards, and nominated for 9 Canadian Screen Awards. A former Chevening Scholar at University College London (UCL) and Erasmus scholar at the University of Amsterdam, his own films have screened at multiple international festivals, from Jakarta to Dhaka, from LA to London. His latest short DIDI had its World Premiere at the 2020 Academy Award-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, as part of the Official Selection, and its International premiere at the 2020 Canadian Screen Award-Qualifying MOSAIC International South Asian Film Festival. His previous short - The Red Mustang - had its World Premiere in competition at the 2018 Montreal World Film Festival and its International Premiere at the 2018 TASVEER South Asian Film Festival in Seattle, the largest showcase of South Asian cinema in the States. He is based between London, England and Colombo, Sri Lanka.