Producer | Line Producer | Country Producer
Iranthi Abeyasinghe
25+
years in film and television
15+
years with international productions
4
formats: feature film, documentary, Reality TV (Local & International), and Commercials.
International & Sri Lankan
Brands and productions Iranthi has worked with
Professional background
International television · Country Producer
Also Country Producer for Peking Express, Pechino Express, Asia Express and Queen of the Jungle across European broadcasters.
Iranthi has extensive hands-on experience taking productions from initial feasibility and budgeting through location scouting, government approvals, pre-production and principal photography, providing international producers with a complete production infrastructure in Sri Lanka.
Based in Sri Lanka, she has collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers, producers and production companies from Europe and Asia, providing comprehensive production support for feature films, documentaries, television series and major international unscripted productions.
The full production process
Her experience covers the whole process: script breakdown, feasibility studies, location research and budgeting, through to government permissions, location permits, casting, crew and equipment, accommodation, transport, logistics, security coordination and on-ground production management.
With an extensive network across Sri Lanka and a strong understanding of local production procedures, Iranthi specialises in helping international producers translate their creative requirements into practical, cost-effective production solutions while maintaining international production standards.
Roles across her career
- Producer: This Is My Moon (2000), Letter of Fire (2009)
- Executive Producer: Flying With One Wing (2002), With You Without You (2012)
- Line Producer: features and series including Love Is Red (2026), Rani (2024), Alborada (2020), The Children of the Sun / Gaadi (2019) and Zero Kilometers (2017)
- Country Producer: documentaries and international reality formats including The Most Dangerous Ways to School (2026) and Pechino Express (2024)
- Production Manager: Machan (2008), directed by Uberto Pasolini
Selected credits
Recent and notable productions
Film & Scripted Television
Producing, executive production and on-ground production management.
2026
Love Is Red
Line Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
The murder trial of a billionaire's son exposes the fragile illusion of Colombo's high society, where influence masks guilt and silence carries its own price.
Project details
2025
Echoes of Us
Line Producer, Sri Lanka
Directed by Joe Rajan / Harvey Films, India
A grieving man discovers his late wife's video diary. As her voice begins to transform into his own, he confronts a terrifying truth he has long suppressed.
Project details
2024
Rani
Line Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
Following the abduction and murder of journalist Richard de Zoysa, his mother takes on a powerful state apparatus in a relentless fight for justice.
Project details
2020
Alborada
Line Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
In colonial Ceylon, Pablo Neruda's fascination with a young Tamil woman reveals the darker contradictions of desire, privilege and power.
Project details
2019
The Children of the Sun / Gaadi
Line Producer
Directed by Prasanna Vithanage
Stripped of her noble status and forcibly married to an outcast, a woman fights to preserve her dignity and resist the destiny imposed on her.
Project details
2018
Asandhimitta
Line Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
A filmmaker is asked to tell the life story of a former college mate accused of triple homicide, entering a fragmented world of truth, memory and imagination.
2017
Zero Kilometers
Line Producer
Directed by Qaushik Mukherjee, India
TV series, 12 episodes
After a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit, Arjun returns to freedom and becomes entangled in a ruthless human-trafficking racket.
Project details
2012
With You Without You
Executive Producer
Directed by Prasanna Vithanage
In the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war, two people divided by the wounds of the past find love, but discover the difficulty of reconciliation.
Project details
2012
Land of Cards
Line Producer
Directed by Qaushik Mukherjee, India
A young prince escapes his predetermined life and reaches an island ruled by conformity, where he inspires a rebellion against control and convention.
2009
Letter of Fire
Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
When a magistrate's son accidentally kills a woman, her attempt to shield him from the law unravels the dark secrets within their privileged family.
2008
Flowers of the Sky / Akasa Kusum
Line Producer
Directed by Prasanna Vithanage
A faded screen legend returns to the spotlight through scandal, confronting a long-hidden secret and the personal cost of fame and motherhood.
2008
Machan
Production Manager
Directed by Uberto Pasolini
A group of ordinary Sri Lankan men pose as the national handball team to travel to Germany, planning to disappear in search of a better life.
Project details
2002
Flying With One Wing
Executive Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
A woman assumes the identity of a man, works as a mechanic and takes a wife, until the life she has built is threatened by the truth.
2000
This Is My Moon
Producer
Directed by Asoka Handagama
A Sinhalese soldier returns from the battlefield with a Tamil woman, confronting a rural community with its prejudices and the divisions of war.
Documentary
International projects, remote communities and challenging locations.
2026
The Most Dangerous Ways to School
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
Produced by Maximum Films, Germany
Children in remote landscapes brave dangerous terrain, extreme weather and extraordinary distances, driven by the hope of an education.
Project details
2021
Legends of Ramayanaya with Amish
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
Produced by Wide Angle Films, India
Amish Tripathi follows the Ramayana across India and Sri Lanka, exploring ancient sites, traditions and the enduring cultural roots of the epic.
Project details
2015
Cemetery
Fixer, Sri Lanka
Directed by Carlos Casas
Two elephants journey toward a mythical graveyard as pursuing poachers enter a mysterious landscape of nature, death and reincarnation.
Project detailsInternational Television & Reality
Country production across Sri Lanka and Asia: international crews, multi-location shoots, filming permissions, transport, accommodation, local casting, equipment and safety planning.
2025 · Poland / TVN | WBITVP Format
Queen of the Jungle / Królowa Przetrwania
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2024 · Italy
Pechino Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2022 · Italy
Pechino Express
Country Producer – India
2022 · France
Peking Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2019 · Hungary
Asia Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2018 · Romania
Asia Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2017 · Poland
Asia Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
2015 · Spain
Peking Express
Country Producer – India & Sri Lanka
2014 · France
Peking Express
Country Producer – Sri Lanka
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