Mathisutha is a Sri Lankan film activist. He tells the stories of him people from a disenfranchised community in Sri Lanka through film. He also teaches cinema to him people from village to village for free.
Him real name is Maheswary Thillaiampalam Suthakaran. in 1985 in Udupi, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, He was born in Udupiddy in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka in 1985.
He was heavily influenced by internal displacement and has studied in 7 schools 8 times. He also worked as a war field medical docter in the final days of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
Due to the lack of financial investment to tell him stories, most of him works are created using mobile phones. But him works have won more than 50 international awards in more than 20 countries.