Debalina Majumder

Debalina Majumder (born 1972, Calcutta, India) is an Indian filmmaker, photographer, writer, producer, and cinematographer. 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.

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. Since that time, her profile has been featuring in the website of Berlinale Talent Campus.

A fictional documentary made by her in 2010, Taar Cheye Se Anek Aaro (More Than a Friend), based on queer relationship, was discussed in the Indian film chapter of Queer Cinema In the World, a book by Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, along with the movie ‘Fire’.

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. " 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 – a film that revolves around the subject of same-sex marriage equality while documenting the journey of three homosexual individuals in pursuit of a marital relationship and Porshi Neeler Arshinagar (Beyond The Blues), which documents the transitional journey of a transmasculine person. Citizen Nagar is currently in its post production phase, as is an experimental film, Amar Jiboni.

Another work of Debalina that was based on Ebong Bewarish (…and the unclaimed), was one of the six experimental queer films from around the world to get featured in an ensemble titled "Mass", as a part of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast (2021).