News 97 -Press Conference of Raigam Tele’es 2022

The Raigam Tele’es Secretariat proudly declares the 19th encounter of Raigam Tele’es to appreciate the tele-creations telecast during the calendar year 2022.
Event Out-Line

• 1. Press Conference to declare the festival and opening of applications – 29th Nov. 2022
• 2. Closing date for acceptance of applications – 15th January 2023
• 3. Nomination Evening – 24th February 2023, – Waters-Edge, Sri Jayawardhanepura.
• 4. Awards Ceremony – 25th March 2023, – Shangri La, Colombo

Head Table of the Press Conference

• Dr. Ravi Liyanage – Chairman, Raigam Group of Companies
• Mr. Kishan Theodore – Managing Director, Raigam Group of Companies
• Mr. Ganaka Amarasinghe – Senior Director, Raigam Group of Companies
• Mr. Buddhadasa Galappatti – Chairman, Panel of Judges
• Mr. Tharaka Ranwala – Snr. DGM – Digitalization, Deposit Mobilization & Marketing, Sampath Bank
• Mr. Chandika Vitharena – CEO, Mobitel

In addition to that Mr. Nishantha Wedagedara, Zonal Manager, Allianz Insurance expressed his views on the sponsorship of Allianz.

Other sponsors of Raigam Tele’es were represented by Mr. Sidatha Kodikar (Managing Director, Imaging Entertainment), Miss Nirushi Theodore (Assistant Brand Manager- Aarya, Raigam Group), Mrs. Nayana Karunarathna (Chairman, Salon Nayana).

Mr. Deemal Jayasooriya (Design-Factory and Corporate Manager, Stone & String (Pvt) Ltd.)

Raigam Tele’es – The Nation’s Tele Award

A wide range of cinema and television festivals are conducted at both domestic and international levels in order to uplift the quality and creativity of relevant products through appreciation of good work done by the artists, producers and institutions, annually. Further these festivals result in setting benchmarks for the industry. Sri Lankans experienced the first ever indigenous film festival, Sarasaviya Cinema Award Ceremony on 9th May 1964 and since then a few more award ceremonies have been introduced by the government as well as non-governmental bodies, of which some are not visible regularly while few other are not in existence today.
In 2005 Raigam Tele’es was launched by the famous local business conglomerate in FMCG industry, the Raigam Group of Companies to fill the gap that had been created in conducting a regular award ceremony for the television industry due to the unstable situation in the country. Today, Raigam Tele’es has become the most prominent television festival in Sri Lanka with the record of conducting such an event consecutively for eighteen years. The highest quality standards maintain in the judging process, innovative presentation and broad coverage through all most all the television channels and social media are the success factors of the festival. Raigam Tele’es has pioneered in introducing many features to the industry including announcement of nominations at a grand function prior to the main event. While the award winners are benefitted with cash awards, all the nominees are benefitted with a valuable insurance cover and testimonials.
Raigam Tele’es holds the record for conducting the festival for seventeen years without any interruption. The latest was conducted as a combined festival for 2020 and 2021 in order to cover up the delayed festival for 2020 due to the COVID Pandemic.
An independent non-commercial body under the name “Raigam Tele’es Secretariat” has been established for conducting the event under the guidance of an eminent panel of artists and academics.
The strong partnership of Sampath Bank, is the key pillar of sustainability of the festival.

Application and Selection Process

Selection process commences with calling applications for awards by a public announcement and also an invitation to all television channels to participate the festival with prospective entries. All entries for awards must be certified by the respective Channel Head that they were telecast on the channel during the relevant period. Repeat telecasts and programs telecast on paid channels are not eligible for awards.
Applications / Entries for Raigam Tele’es 2022 will be accepted up to 15th January 2023.
All the entries are carefully scrutinized by a competent and independent panel of judges.

Panel of Judges

The value and the recognition of any award ceremony is depend on the credibility of the selection process of award winners and therefore the Raigam Tele’es Secretariat has appointed a renowned and experienced panel of judges consisting well recognized academics, artists and critics in the field.

• Mr. Buddadasa Galappatty – Chairman
• Prof. Rohini Paranawithana
• Mr. Ravindra Guruge
• Dr. Hansamala Ritigahapola
• Mr. Jayanath Gunawardhena
• Mr. Aruna Gunarathna
• Mr. Ranga Dassanayake
• Mr. Saman Wickremarachchi
• Mr. Chaminda Welagedara
• Mr. B. H. Abdul Hameed

While the winners of most popular category are selected on the results of SMS poll, the Most Viewed Propgrammes (Janagatha) will be selected on an island wide research. Awardees for awards of appreciation (Pranaama) are decided by the advisory board.

Seven Categories

Raigam Tele’es covers all the aspects of television performance and awards have been distributed as follows;

Rewards and Benefits

Raigam Telees granted 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. This is the only experience in Sri Lanka with such a benefit granted for all the nominees in a film or tele festival.
Apart from that this year too, the winners of the Raigam Tele’es will receive cash prizes in exceeding of Rs. 3.0 million.
We appreciate the tremendous support of Sampath Bank as the Partner of Raigam Tele’es for the past 10 years and also grateful to the Mobitel (Pvt) Limited, for their generous sponsorship for the Nomination Evening. Further Allianz Insurance’s unmatched insurance gift for our valuable artists and the technical support of Imagine Entertainment are highly appreciated.

Entries for 2022

Creations eligible for evaluation for awards at the Raigam Tele’es 2022 are as follows.

• 1. Tele-dramas – Local tele-dramas that had telecast the last episode in 2022.
• 2. Other creations – The first telecast should be in 2022. Repeat telecasts are not eligible. Series such as reality programmes need to complete the respective season.
• 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 2022 are now accepted by the Raigam Tele’es Secretariat and will be closed on 15th January 2023. Those who are expecting to apply for the awards are kindly requested to contact Raigam Tele’es Secretariat on 0707 061602/ 0707 061508 immediately.
Application forms can be obtained from respective TV channels, contacting above telephone numbers or visiting the official web site www.raigamtelees.lk
Applications together with respective creations stored on CD or DVD using VOB or Mpeg formats can be handed over to the Raigam Tele’es Counters at following addresses.

• Lapro Technologies, No. 25, Ground Floor, Lucky Plaza, Colombo 03.
• Fox Furniture Show Room, Opposite Keels Super, Horana Road, Kottawa

Raigam Tele’es Secretariat earnestly requests the support of the print, TV and electronic media to bring this message closer to home to the general public

Track Record of Raigam Tele’es

• 18 consecutive years
• Highest number of awards
• First Nomination Evening dedicated to nominees
• First award ceremony to reward and insure its nominees
• Only tele award ceremony that offers a monetary reward for winners.
• First award ceremony with access to dedicated app for voting and updates
• Telecast on most number of channels
• YouTube trending – among top 5 on list for the last 3 years.
• Identifying the most viewed TV programmes (apart from the most popular category) based on statistical research conducted.

Raigam Tele’es Secretariat for further details

• Rohana Kumara – 0707 061508
• Lahiru Perera – 0707061602
• Tele : 011 4886777 / 4886888 Fax: 0112753341-2
• E-mail: creations@raigam.lk / raigamcreations@gmail.com