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Chandran Rutnam

Chandran Rutnam is a Sri Lankan film maker. He has lived in Los Angeles, California for 38 years and is now residing in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rutnam has hosted numerous Hollywood films for their location shoots in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. He was the Line Producer/Production Supervisor on several international productions including the Sri Lankan location shoot of Paramount Pictures' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indochine (1992).Steven Spielberg once referred to Rutnam as "Our most valued friend in the Far East".Rutnam has had the distinction of working with Sir David Lean, Sir Carol Reed, John Boorman, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Regis Wargnier.Rutnam wrote the screenplay, produced, directed and edited the film The Road from Elephant Pass, which was a Finalist Award Winner at the New York International Telvision and Film Awards in 2011.He wrote the adapted screenplay and produced and directed, A Common Man with Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross. The film was nominated for the four main awards at the Madrid International Film Festival. The film won the Best Picture, Best Director and the Best Actor Awards in 2013.In that same year Rutnam co-wrote the screenplay, directed and edited the film Sri Siddhartha Gauthama, which won the Best Film Award in the World Cinema Section of the Delhi International Film Festival (2013).Rutnam directed the film According to Matthew with Jacqueline Fernandez and Alston Koch.Rutnam is planning the production of Outcast, based on the Joseph Conrad novel and Toomai of the Elephants based on the Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Film Location Services which mostly hosts foreign films to be shot in South and South East Asia.He is the founder of Lionair, the once-popular Sri Lankan airline and owns the Asian Aviation Centre, an aeronautical engineering and flying academy in Sri Lanka.He is the Chief Consultant at Selvasingam Consultants which promotes Films, Film Location Services, Leisure & Entertainment industries via Digital Media.