Jude Ratnam

Born in 1978, Jude Ratnam took a Film and Audiovisual Studies course at the School of Media Arts and Management in Sri Lanka, and also has a degree in Sociology and Psychology from the Madurai Kamaraj University in India. He began by making a number of music videos and shorts that were broadcast on local Sri Lanka television. In 2006, he decided to set up his own production company, Kriti - A Work of Art, to produce his first feature, “Demons in Paradise”. Presented at the Special Screenings of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, this semi-autobiographical movie portrays the atrocities and heartbreak within the Tamil community during the Sri Lankan civil war. Ratnam is also a film critic for the Colombo Film Circle, a journal he founded and that is sponsored by Les Cahiers du Cinéma.