Mr.Selvakumar Rinoshan, a fourth-year student of the Department of Media Studies submitted his Short film ‘Aasanam’ in the 14th Short Film Festival organized by ‘Agenda 14’. The Short film was awarded as the ‘Most Gender Sensitive Film’ in the above Competition. The awarding ceremony was held on the 09th of December 2024 in Colombo.

Media Studies has given an opportunity to the students to learn short filmmaking under the ‘Digital Storytelling: Short Filmmaking’ course unit as per the curriculum in the fourth year of the study programme in order to provide a ‘hands-on’ application of video production principles and techniques with the basic vocabulary, aesthetics, systematic and technical skills required for short film production.