Rajee Samarasinghe (Colombo, Sri Lanka 1988) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist. Some of his recent work examines contemporary ethnographic practices through associations of family and heritage. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Rajee's work has been exhibited at venues internationally including the BFI London Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, FIDMarseille, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, CROSSROADS/SFMOMA, REDCAT, New Orleans Film Festival, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Antimatter [Media Art], Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, l'Alternativa, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and San Diego Asian Film Festival among many others.
He's received the "Film House Award" at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, the "Vimeo - Audience Award" at the CROSSROADS Film Festival, and a "Jury Award" at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.