Prasad Pereira is an assistant director and producer based in Sri Lanka with over 15 years of experience in the film and television industry. He has worked on over 200 television commercials and films for international directors. Some of the production companies he has worked with include Moving Temple Films, Hamilton Mehta Midnight Productions, and Studio Babelsberg. Pereira has expertise in scheduling, on-set administration, directing background action, and crowd control. He provides references from Suren de Silva of Video Image Pvt. Ltd. and director Kanika Myer.

1. Prasad Pereira
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – FILM & TV SKYPE prasadpereira
+94 71 220 9757
prasadpereira@gmail.com
www.prasadpereira.com
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2932153/
FILMOGRAPHY PRODUCTION COMPANIES (SL) PRODUCTION COMPANIES (INT.)
JEKYLL & HYDE [TV] – 2nd AD (2015)
TOMMY – 1st AD [SL Shoot] (2013)
VERONIKA [TV] – 3rd AD (2012)
VARA: A BLESSING – 2nd AD (2012)
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN – Key AD (SL) (2011)
DIE MANNER DER EMDEN (THE EMDEN MEN)
– Key AD (SL) (2011)
MACHAN – 3rd AD [Credited as 2nd AD] (2007)
Video Image (Pvt) Ltd
The Film Team
Vision Works
Crew For Shoots
Susila Productions
X-10
TenPlus
Helium180
Infinity Pictures
ITV, London, UK
Atmo, Stockholm, Sweden
Moving Temple Films, Hong Kong
Hamilton Mehta Midnight Productions, Canada
Lisa Film, Austria
Studio Babelsberg, Germany/UK
Biscuit Films, Kuala Lumpur
Alamo Films, Madrid, Spain
Chrome Pictures, Mumbai
Nirvana Films, Mumbai/Bangalore
Equinox Films, Mumbai
As 1st A.D. AD AGENCIES DIRECTORS SKILLS
*Over 200 TV commercials to date*
*Brands Include:
Dialog telecoms
Unilever
Bank of Ceylon
Sri Lanka Insurance
Fonterra Brands
JWT
BBDO
Ogilvy Outreach
Phoenix Ogilvy
Triad
Lowe LDB
Response
Grant McKann-Erikson
Deepa Mehta
Khyentse Norbu
Uberto Pasolini
Nigel Simpkiss
Berengar Pfahl
Colin Teague
Julio del Álamo
John Bonito
Ram Madhvani
Tarik Saleh
Kanika Myer
Andrei Selivanov
Suren De Silva
Prakash Varma
Ashish Sawhney
Amit Sharma
VK Prakash
Eric Will
Kunal Kohli
Scheduling
On Set Administration
Directing of Background Action
Crowd control (500++)
Experience With:
Worked with animals
Worked with children
Green Screen
Vehicles
Stunts
REFERENCES OTHER EXPERIENCE FOOTNOTES
Mr. Suren de Silva
Managing Director, Video Image Pvt. Ltd,
Colombo 05
+94 77 736 0555
suren@videoimage.tv
Ms. Kanika Myer
Director, KA Films, Mumbai, India
+919819761572
kanikamyer@gmail.com
 2010 – Production Manager, Life
Streaming – an experiential theatre
project conceived and directed by noted
Dutch theatre director Dries Verhoeven
 2009, 2010 – Writer/Producer ETV
Power Women – TV Series
 2005 - Writer/Researcher of the 10-part
documentary series Children of Tsunami
for TVE (South Asia)
 1999 – 2004 – Producer – MTV News,
Sri Lanka
 1995 – 2004 – Radio
Newscaster/Writer/News Editor (Yes
FM)
 Over a decade and a half experience as actor in the
English Theatre in Sri Lanka.
 Notable theatre works: Ruwanthie de Chickera’s Two
times Two is Two (2000), Tracy Holsinger’s Ubu Rex
(2001) and The Travelling Circus (2009, 2011), Jerome L.
de Silva’s Blood Brothers (2007), and Feroze Kamardeen’s
Venice (2006)
 TV Presenter – Hee Saraya (Stop Print), Sirasa TV 1999-
2000; The SMS Request Show, Sirasa TV 2004
 Film acting roles in Prasanna Vithanage’s Ira Madiyama
(August Sun) and Akasa Kusum (Flowers of the Sky),
Veronika [Russian TV], Khyentse Norbu’s Vara: A
Blessing, Chandran Rutnam’s According To Mathew and
Malith Hegoda’s Dekala Purudu Kenek (The Strange
Familiar)
EDUCATION
Trinity College, Kandy (1981 – 1994)
University of Kelaniya (1998)
I certify that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Signed,
Prasad Pereira