Television Productions

Dr. David Bellamy interviews Matara Swami at Kataragama for the six-part Route of Wisdom documentary series.

Cultural Survival's award-winning documentary artistes have combined social conscience and technical excellence with scholarly research to pioneer an exuberant and stimulating new genre of highly acclaimed television documentaries. These have included:

• Pooja '86 documentary tracing the roots of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict;
• The Kataragama-Skanda Trilogy two-hr documentary for Sri Lanka's Independent Television Network (1987)
• Routes of Wisdom (1992) environmental six-part series with Dr. David Bellamy (1990-1993)
• Sri Lanka Rupavahini documentary about Kataragama (1993)
• Zeit der Goetter German documentary about Kataragama (1993)
• Otros Pueblos documentary about Kataragama for Spanish National Television in 1996.
• ZDF German National Television documentary about Kataragama (1997)
• Ancient Moderns documentary about Kataragama for The Discovery Channel (telecast in 2001)
• a host of appearances on local and international (BBC, CNN) television and radio programs.

Cultural Survival's most ambitious undertaking to date, a six-episode series with the celebrated scientist-communicator, Dr. David Bellamy, entitled Routes of Wisdom, is the centerpiece of its media awareness and information gathering campaign. Cultural Survival has also made available audio-visual material, that articulates indigenous perspectives to local and foreign film and television producers and stations for creating public awareness.