Press conference on sixteenth encounter of Raigam Tele’es held on 17th December 2019 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. The Nominations Evening to announce nominees for awards will be held on 28th February 2020 at Kingsbury Colombo. The sixteenth encounter of Raigam Tele’es -, which is also the biggest annual event of the television industry in Sri Lanka will be held on the 21st of March 2020 at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre.

Following participants were at the press conference head table;

• Mr. Kishan Thedore - Managing Director - The Kingdom of Raigam
• Mr. Nalin Perera - Chief Executive Officer - Mobitel
• Mr. Pujitha Rajapaksa - Senior Manager Marketing – Sampath Bank
• Dr. Ravi Liyanage - Chairman - The Kingdom of Raigam
• Mr. Ganaka Amarasinghe - Senior Director - The Kingdom of Raigam
• Mr. Buddadasa Galappatty - Chairman Panel of Judges

The theme “නිදහසේ 16” symbolises the independence of Raigam Teles, experienced over the past 16 years.

Entries are now accepted for the festival.

Raigam Tele’es proudly announce that this is the only tele/film awarding ceremony in the region held within the 1st quarter immediately after the end of year under review. No doubt that both artists and television viewers will welcome this move to evaluate the TV programme while they are still live in good memories of them, despite the challenges in evaluating and organizing the event in such a short span of time.

Continuation of an award ceremony at the highest level for sixteen consecutive years, overcoming many challenges is a very special victory for us and we are pleased to see that today the Raigam Tele’es has become a very special event of all stakeholders of the industry. We share that happiness and the strength we have thus gained with the media and the general public and we gladly and proudly accept the challenge of organizing the “Awards Ceremony of the Nation” to encompass the whole of the tele-media.

The Panel of Judges consists of ten members and most of them have past experience in similar capacity. This time the Chairman of the panel is Mr. Buddadasa Galapattie, who is a well-known personality in the field of media, literacy and arts. Other members are Mr. Ravindra Guruge, Prof. Ariyarathne Kaluarchchi, renowned cinematographer Mr. Jayanth Gunawardhena, Mrs. Jayantha Rukmani Siriwardhena, Senior Lecturer Hansamala Ritigahapola, Music Director Ranga Dasanayake, Prof. Ajantha Hapuarachchi, Well–Known Journalist Aruna Gunarathne. Further a well-known personality in the field of Tamil media will perform duties as special advisor in the Tamil medium.

Awards will be presented under four main categories as:

• Tele-drama Excellence Awards
• Television Media Excellence Awards
• Awards of Appreciation
• Most Popular Awards
• Appreciation TV Channels

In order to facilitate easy voting an updating viewer with latest news, a mobile app has been launched for Raigam Tele’es. This can be downloaded from Google play store.

• SMS voting will be opened from 28th Feb. to 20th March 2020. 25 participants from SMS-voting will be selected to receive one invitation each to witness Raigam Tele’es 2019. The winners who will receive a message from the Raigam Tele’es Secretariat through the telephone number used to send the SMS will enable to receive printed invitations by forwarding the message at the gate.
• Telephone Nos. for SMS Poll will be published soon.

Creations eligible for evaluation for awards at the Raigam Tele’es 2019 are as follows.

• 1. Tele-dramas – Local tele-dramas that had telecast the last episode in 2019.
• 2. Other creations – Should have been telecast during 2019.
• 3. Any production telecast over cable TV or any other paid channel or any dubbed production (other than for best dubbing program) are not eligible for awards.
• 4. News Readers and Program Presenters may send their application through their TV channel or independently.
• 5. Award winners under News Reader and Programme Presenter are not eligible to re-apply for the same award in the three immediate succeeding years.

Entries for Raigam Tele’es 2019 are now accepted by the Raigam Tele’es Secretariat and will be closed on 15th of January 2019. Those who are expecting to apply for the awards are kindly requested to contact Raigam Tele’es Secretariat on the hot-line mentioned below or on 0707 061976/ 0707 061508/0707061606 immediately.

Applications together with tele creations stored on CD or DVD using VOB or Mpeg formats can be handed over to the following address.

Raigam Tele’es Counter
Lapro Technologies
No. 25, Ground Floor
Lucky Plaza
Colombo 03
Hot-line 0771 061 606

Partnerships

Sampath Bank is the Primary Partner of Raigam Tele’es 2019. Sampath Bank, the pioneer in technical innovative banking, is one of the most responsible and respected Corporate Citizens in the land. In addition to the strength provided by Sampath Bank as the partner of the event, contributes over Rs.2,500,000 exclusively to grant cash prizes to the winners.

Mobitel, one of the leading communication service provider in Sri Lanka sponsors the Nominations Evening. In addition to that Mobitel is the mobile communication partner of the entire festival.

Allianz Insurance Lanka Limited has joined hands with Raigam Telees granting an annual life insurance coverage of Rs. 1,000,000/- and a hospitalization insurance cover of Rs.100,000/- for all the artists honoured at the event including nominees, as did in the last year. This is the first experience in Sri Lanka with such a generous insurance cover granted for all the nominees in a film or tele festival.

Imagine Entertainment the leading technical facilitator for mega events in Sri Lanka has joined hands with Raigam Tele’es as the technical partner.

Swetha Chandanadeelepaya will be the beauty partner of the event. Stone & String, Salon Naturals and Raymond Bride & Groom are the co-sponsors of the festival.