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Ambassador Jayatilleka serves on jury of
Time for Peace Film & Music Awards
The Permanent Mission
of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
21st May 2008
H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva served on the jury committee
of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards 2007/2008 which was held
in London on 12th May 2008.
Ambassador Jayatilleka was one of 26 Ambassadors who were selected
from among the 163 Ambassadors/Permanent Representatives based in Geneva
to serve as jury committee members of the Award ceremony 2007/2008.
Ambassador Jayatilleka is also invited to serve on the jury committee
of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards 2008/2009.
The 2007/2008 Time for Peace Film & Music Award winners are: Michael
Winterbottom - English Language Film Award (The Mighty Heart), Alexander
Sokurov - Europeam Film Award (Alexandra), John Carney - European Film
Award (Once), Naomi Kawase - Asian Film Award (The Mourning Forest)
and Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Music Film Award.
The Time for Peace Film & Music Awards, launched in New York in
1994 by Marion Einbeck and Robert Einbeck, is a response to the need
for popularizing films and music recognized for their artistic quality
that further the ideals of humanist values such as tolerance, better
understanding between people, respect for differences and human solidarity.
It is intended to inspire hope through films and music and to show how
heroes who aspire to what is the best in a human life could serve as
examples for a large audience.
The idea underlying the award is that art and culture are important
catalysts. Films and music have a strong impact on understanding the
world while their creation can potentially have a positive influence.
The paramount objective for social impact, which is the mission of
the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards, is to motivate the film
industry to produce films that convey humanist values and to make the
public, and young people in particular, receptive to living these humanist
values in their everyday life guided by the cinema.
The responsibility of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards is
to continue and expand its efforts so that people will come to associate
pop culture with social understanding, cooperation, and constructive
behavior.
Its goals are:
-To establish a strategy for the creation of an Internet databank of
cinematographic work of high artistic quality that provides humanist
values that call attention to a culture of tolerance, respect for differences,
a better understanding between human beings, solidarity, and the preservation
of the environment.
-To put a pedagogic curriculum in place that allows school teachers
and university faculty to use cinematography in the teaching of their
courses so that in their daily lives their students will be imbued with
the works of great film directors and inspired by their values.
-To create a Time for Peace Film foundation that will supervise the
development of the cinematographic databank and the implantation of
an international educational system.
Official website of The Time for Peace Film & Music Awards: www.timeforpeace.com
Video clip on the Award ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNlN9pGBG8
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