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Restoration Notes The restoration of Bambaru Avith (The Wasps Are Here) was made possible using the sole-surviving 35mm release print. It is the fourth feature-length film by the late Sri Lankan director Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja (1943-2018) and is the first South Asian film title restored by the Asian Film Archive. Due to inadequate storage and handling, the print was in critical condition, displaying chemical decay, mould damage and severe vinegar syndrome. An intensive desiccation treatment was applied to reduce the stickiness and alleviate the condition of the print to enable repair work and the digitising process. Due to the lack of good image information for comparisons, automatic digital restoration application could not be utilised, thus requiring a great amount of manual work. Extensive manual repairs were conducted to address damage from mould, scratches, shrinkage and tears. Scratch removal, stabilising, deflicking and colour correction were carried out. A manual edit was performed on the optical soundtrack digitised from the print, using spectral analysis and frequency/samples interpolation. This helped to eliminate or reduce clicks, crackles and bumps. Equalisation and multi-band compression was applied to every scene to smoothen excessive noise and to balance the overall tone for a better auditory experience. The serious buckling and warpage of the print resulted in a doubling effect during the scanning process. Current restoration tools are unable to rectify this effect to a homogeneous result on image quality and focus. A total of 4750 hours was spent to digitally restore the film in 4K resolution by L'Immagine Ritrovata in 2019 and completed in 2020.