Debalina Majumder

Debalina Majumder (born 1972, Kolkata, India) is an Indian filmmaker, writer, producer, and cinematographer.[1] She studied Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. Debalina has worked on feature-length documentary films, short films, travelogues, music videos, corporate films, telefilms and experimental films. She is passionate about environmental issues, gender, sexuality and occasionally writes for newspapers and magazines. She has also extensively worked as a cinematographer.

Debalina Majumder is a film director, cinematorgrapher and writer based in Kolkata, India.

In 2005, her short film about mud football in Kolkata, (Sar..r..ra/ Joy Run) was selected to the <Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies!> short film competition, Berlinale Talent Campus, at Berlin, and also included in the Fifa 2006 World Cup Compilation.

Based on the story of two lovers who committed suicide, in the village of Nandigram (West Bengal, India), Debalina's film "... ebang bewarish" ("...and the Unclaimed"), questioned social taboos and familial non-acceptance in regards to same-sex relationship.[2] " Based on the same event, Debalina's fiction film "Abar Jodi Ichha Koro" (If You Dare Desire) was released in 2017.

She has then followed up with "Tin Sottyi..."(In Fact...), a celebration and documentation of three non-normative lives. Gay India Matrimony and Citizen Nagar are in their post production phases .

Filmography
YearFilmDirectorWriterCinematographerProducer Sound Type
2019 Citizen Nagar (Post-production) Yes Yes Yes Documentary
2019 Gay India Matrimony (Post-production) Yes Yes Yes Documentary
2018 Tin Sottyi...(In Fact...)[3] Yes Yes Yes Documentary
2017 Abar Jodi Ichchha Karo... (If you dare Desire...)[4] Yes Co-cinematographer Yes Fiction
2016 Signature Film, Dialogues: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival[5] Yes
2016 Rashmi Matric Pass Yes
2013... ebang bewarish" ("...and the unclaimed")[6]YesYesYesCo-producer Yes Documentary
2012 Signature film, Dialogues:Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival[7] Yes Yes Yes
2010Taar Cheye Se Anek Aaro (More Than a Friend)[8]YesYes Yes Docu-fiction
2010Signature film, Dialogues:Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video FestivalYesYes Yes
2009Habul & Co.[9]Yes Fiction-Telefilm
2008Katha (Monologues)[10]YesYesYes Yes
2007The Broken LandYesYes
2006 Mother Courageous[11] Yes
2005 Tomar Ghare Basat Kare Kaijana (The Wall & Other Stories) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Experimental
2005A Stranger in a Bioscope[12]YesYes
2005Bombagarh Natyacompany[13]Yes Fiction-Telefilm
2004Sar..rr..ra (Joy Run)[14]YesYes Yes

Awards

"... ebang bewarish" ("...and the unclaimed") received Jury Special Mention in the Documentary section of SiGNS 2014, organized by the Federation of Film Societies of India, Kerala on 1 June 2014. Nearly 160 films under categories such as national competition for documentaries and short films; artists’ cinema were screened at the 8th edition of SiGNS, the pioneering festival in India for digital videos.

"Abar Jodi Ichha Koro" (If You Dare Desire...) won the Diversity-award for best feature film at the 18th Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival (2018), Barcelona, Spain and Best Film, Gender at the 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival, New Delhi, India, 2018

References
  1. "Filmography by type for Debalina Majumder". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  2. "Rabibasariya Magazine". Anandabazar.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  3. "Teen Satyi or In Fact – true experiences of three people who chose to live differently". Our Frontcover. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. "Vancouver Queer Film Festival | If You Dare Desire". queerfilmfestival.ca. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. debaulicfilms (4 December 2016), Signature Film Dialogues 2016, retrieved 30 May 2019
  6. Bhattacharya, Sayan (5 February 2013). "And the Unclaimed..." Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  7. Debalina Majumder (10 January 2013), DIALOGUES: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival 2012, retrieved 30 May 2019
  8. "Taar Cheye Se Anek Aaro (More Than a Friend) (2010)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  9. "Habul & Co. (2009)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  10. "Katha Monologues (2008)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  11. Debalina Majumder (12 September 2015), Mother Courageous, retrieved 29 May 2019
  12. "A Stranger in a Bioscope (2005)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  13. "Bombagarh Natyacompany (2005)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  14. "Sar..rr..ra (Joy Run) (2004)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.


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