Sumedha Rathnasekara B.K. was born on 11 January 1965 in Mullariyawa New Town Sri Lanka, the youngest of four children to Karuna G.H and Ariyapala B.K. who was a wholesale trader for the main vegetable market in Colombo. In 1970 Sumedha commenced his schooling at Angoda Rahula Vidyalaya, and then continued at Advanced Level at Nalanda College Colombo until 1983. In the same year he joined one of the revolutionary political parties as an active member. In 1984 Sumedha undertook an Electrical Engineering course at ATI Katubadda Campus. In 1995 he moved to Australia for further studies in textile printing design at Melbourne Institute of Textile College where he undertook various projects and designed flyers, brochures, newsletters, newspapers for the Sri Lankan community in Melbourne. In 1998 he joined 3CR Sinhalese Community Radio as Program Operator and worked as a member of editorial in "Divasa" Sinhalese Community Newspaper. Within the media field Sumedha produced two Radio Drama programs for 3ZZZ and SBS Radio channels together with VCE students from Roxburgh Park VSL Centre. Sumedha continued to direct and produce stage drama and school concerts for the St Albans Sinhalese Language School (2003 Sep) Sinhalese Radio Programs for 3ZZZ Multicultural Radio were produced and directed. Sumedha has been appointed as Academic Secretary and School Coordinator of the Victorian Sinhalese Language School of Werribee, (still current). In 2003 he founded the Sumedha Home Video Production House which consists of members who are gifted and active within the arts field, with cultural talents and interests in the film industry who are living in Australia. Sumedha Home Video first production "Visanvadhaya" was created with young Sri Lankan students from various universities living in Melbourne. It was completed in January 2006 and telecast on the TV channel 31. This short film was script, edited and directed by Sumedha Rathnasekara. In 2008 Professor Damian Murphy offered Sumedha 2 years Diploma of Information Technology (Multimedia) (ICA50905) Diploma in KAL Multimedia Training Centre. At that time Sumedha accepted the offer and successfully completed the 23 elements with Credit passes within 8 weeks. Sumedha Home Video 2nd goal was "Saswamika" a feature TV Movie also script edited and directed by Sumedha Rathnasekara. It was a movie length film and screened on two occasions at St Albans Victoria University auditorium and Kel Watson Theater, East Burwood. It was also telecast in "TV Lanka" TV Channel, Sri Lanka in 2009.
