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SL Ambassador Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka to serve on jury of Time for Peace Film & Music Awards

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva 16th November 2007

H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva has accepted an invitation to serve on the jury committee of the 2007-2008 Time for Peace Film & Music Awards.

Ambassador Jayatilleka is one of 24 Ambassadors who will serve as jury committee members selected from among the 163 Ambassadors/Permanent Representatives based in Geneva.

The awards ceremony will be held in Geneva in April/May 2008.

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 an understanding of 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 goal is: 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 the 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

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