Prasanna Jayakody (Sinhalese: ප්රසන්න ජයකොඩි; born August 25, 1968) is a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter.
[3] His directorial debut, Sankara, was released in 2007 and garnered several awards at both local and international film festivals.
[4] Notably, it received the Silver Pyramid Award at the Cairo International Film Festival that same year.
Sankara also won the Jury Special Prize at the Turkey Silk Road Film Festival.
His subsequent film, Karma, released in 2013, earned nominations for several international awards.