SIGNIS is the World Catholic Association for Communication, a global network of Catholic media professionals that promotes “Media for a culture of peace”
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BACKGROUND
SIGNIS (Sri Lanka) developed in November 2001 from the merger of national chapters of OCIC and Unda. OCIC was the international Catholic communications organisation for cinema and Unda was the international Catholic organisation for radio and television. Both organisations were founded in 1928 in Sri Lanka. SIGNIS Sri Lanka is one of 16 Asian units of the worldwide association of SIGNIS, which general secretariat is established in Brussels, Belgium. Leading directors in Sri Lanka cinema have described being inspired by the Film Review Caucus, a mini-theater organized by OCIC in Colombo. It arranged screenings and encouraged students to write reviews and analyze films. Director Prasanna Vithanage commented in 2007: “We do not have a film school in Sri Lanka even now,” he pointed out, recalling how the current crop of directors got their start. “We learned everything through watching films. Many of the young directors in the industry today were groomed at the Film Review Caucus, which was started at the mini-theater by then-director Father Ernest Poruthota. Then I followed the film course, which was a practical course,” he recounted.[citation needed] In March 2013, the director founded the Prasanna Vithanage Film School in Colombo.
