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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Spandan Banerjee<br />
| image = SPANDAN_BANERJEE.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|04|02|df=yes}}<br />
| parents = Mr M.K Banerjee and Kabita Banerjee<br />
| education = Bachelor's degree, [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata|St Xavier's College]], [[Kolkata]]<br />
| occupation = [[Film director|Director]]/ Filmmaker<br />
}}<br />
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'''Spandan Banerjee''' is an Indian independent [[filmmaker]]. He is the Founder of Overdose Films Pvt. Ltd. He was born in [[Kolkata]], and finished his undergraduate studies from [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata|St. Xavier's College]], [[Kolkata]], [[India]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
His interest in art started early from being a young [[cartoonist]] for [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] in 1990's [[Kolkata]] to designing for the [[Satyajit Ray]] Society. He started his advertising career at Response India, [[Kolkata]] and subsequently [[BBDO]] and McCann, until he quit to make films under the banner of Overdose Films. <br />
He was one of the six shortlisted for the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Award in the SCREEN category.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} His other advertising work includes [[Horlicks]], [[Incredible India]], [[British High Commission]], [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic Channel Films]], [[Goethe Institute]], [[Pratham]], [[UNICEF]] and more. He has also directed video clips for the '[[Indian Ocean (band)|Tandanu]]' album featuring [[Shankar Mahadevan]], [[Vishal Dadlani]], [[Shubha Mudgal]], [[Indian Ocean (band)|Indian Ocean]], Kumaresh, [[Grammy Award]] winner [[Pandit Vishwamohan Bhatt]] and [[Selvaganesh]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-13 |title=Indian Ocean finds new shores {{!}} Tehelka - Investigations, Latest News, Politics, Analysis, Blogs, Culture, Photos, Videos, Podcasts |url=http://www.tehelka.com/2014/05/indian-ocean-finds-new-shores/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613125534/http://www.tehelka.com/2014/05/indian-ocean-finds-new-shores/ |archive-date=13 June 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title='Tandanu' (sneak preview) - Indian Ocean and Shankar Mahadevan |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUIayqNB0E |language=en |access-date=2022-09-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Canfield |first=David |date=2015-03-17 |title='Raiders!' and 'Mavis!' Highlight Hot Docs 2015 Lineup |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/03/raiders-and-mavis-highlight-hot-docs-2015-lineup-63995/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=IndieWire |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iffk.in/idsffk/awardfilms.php |title=International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala |access-date=2014-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821205651/http://www.iffk.in/idsffk/awardfilms.php |archive-date=2014-08-21 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-23 |title=Made in India |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/made-in-india-5/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/to-let-best-long-documentary/article4804355.ece|title = To Let best long documentary|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 12 June 2013}}</ref><br />
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His independent films including the National Award-winning ''You Don't Belong'', and ''To-Let (''Best Doc IDSFFK 2013) have been highly acclaimed. His earlier film ''Beware Dogs'' (World Premiere [[IFFR]] 2008) was one of a kind and one of the first music documentaries from [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beware Dogs {{!}} IFFR |url=https://iffr.com/nl/iffr/2008/films/beware-dogs |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=iffr.com}}</ref> His films have a distinct style and language and have often been compared to jazz in its form.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/home-and-the-world/article4908751.ece |title= Home and the world |newspaper= The Hindu |publisher=thehindu |date= 12 July 2013|last1= Bhattacharya |first1= Budhaditya }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramnath |first=Nandini |title=Spandan Banerjee on his film English India: 'Language is the subtext of everything that surrounds us' |url=http://scroll.in/article/721664/spandan-banerjee-on-his-film-english-india-language-is-the-subtext-of-everything-that-surrounds-us |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Scroll.in |date=20 April 2015 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://newcanadianmedia.ca/item/27028-spotlighting-diverse-films-filmmakers-at-this-year-s-hot-docs |title=Spotlighting Diverse Films, Filmmakers at this Year's Hot Docs - New Canadian Media |website=newcanadianmedia.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129211213/http://newcanadianmedia.ca/item/27028-spotlighting-diverse-films-filmmakers-at-this-year-s-hot-docs |archive-date=2016-01-29}}</ref><br />
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==Filmography==<br />
{|class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-style="text-align:center;"<br />
|-<br />
!Year<br />
!Film<br />
!Director<br />
!Producer<br />
!class="unsortable" | Notes<br />
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| style="text-align:center;"|2006<br />
|''Track2''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
| 6&nbsp;mins. Official Selection: [[Festival Grec de Barcelona|Festival Cine International de Barcelona]], 2007<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2006<br />
|''Thekey Pe Kya Kartey Ho?''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
| 6&nbsp;mins. Official Selection: VISCULT 2007, [[Finland]], Girona Film Festival 2007, [[Spain]] & [[Kara Film Festival|KARA Film Festival]] 2007–09, [[Pakistan]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2008<br />
|''Beware Dogs''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
| World Premiere: [[International Film Festival Rotterdam|International Film Festival]], [[Rotterdam]] 2008. Off. Selection: [[Art Film Fest|Festival of International Films on Art]] (FIFA), [[Montreal]] 2008, Barcelona Asian Film Festival (BAFF), [[Barcelona]] 2008, [[Portobello Film Festival]], [[London]] 2008, [[Indo-American Arts Council|MIAAC]] 2008, [[New York City|New York]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2011<br />
|''You Don't Belong''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
| 75&nbsp;mins. "Special Jury" at the 59th National Films Awards, 2012, [[India]]; INDIAN PANORAMA at the 42nd [[International Film Festival of India]] (IFFI 2011), [[Goa]]; Special Jury at the 4th IDSFFK 2011, [[Kerala]]. US Premiere: [[New York Indian Film Festival]], [[New York City|NY]], 2011. You Don't Belong Film Festival, [[China]] 2012<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2013<br />
|''To-Let''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|65&nbsp;mins. 'Best Long Documentary' at the 6th IDSFFK 2013, [[Kerala]]. USA Premiere: [[New York Indian Film Festival]], [[New York City|NY]], 2013<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2015<br />
|''City Of Dark''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|<br />
| Fiction Feature (85&nbsp;mins. under [[post-production]])<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align:center;"|2015<br />
|''English India''<br />
|{{yes}}<br />
|<br />
| (75&nbsp;mins/ Doc) [[Film festival|WORLD PREMIERE]], HOTDOCS [[Toronto]] 2015, IDSFFK, [[Kerala]] 2015, Long list for nomination [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]] 2015.<br />
|}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
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You Don't Belong is a 2011 music documentary that follows a popular 80's Bengali song known as traditional and locates the author of the song. Myth and memory, [[Folk music|folk]] and copyright, home and migration are the larger narratives emerging from the journey of a song from the margins into the urban mainstream.<br />
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The song was first popularized during the emergence of Bengali bands interspersing [[Rock music|rock]] and [[Folk music|folk]] to capture contemporary displaced realities. Reproduced and distributed by the flourishing recording industry as representative of the [[Folk music|folk]] traditions of [[Bengal]]. Traveling across known and remembered lands, following the unseen path of migration that [[music]] takes, You Don't Belong asks some important questions about the encounter between art and mass production, creation and ownership in a country of myriad folk and oral traditions.<br />
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The Jury citation of To-Let by IDSFFK states, much like a jazz jam, the film takes us on a journey through the plight of the modern urban nomad in search of a home in a modern-day [[Delhi]]. Drawing on a mosaic of all too familiar situations, the director creates a funny and poignant ballad that really grooves.<br />
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Rotterdam Film Festival described his 2008 film ''Beware Dogs'' as "a poetic and exciting documentary on the contemporary music group Indian Ocean. The film depicts the creative struggle of four musicians who are together on their artistic journey, sharing their inner joy, fears, laughs, thoughts and putting it all in their songs. With a lyrical, rather slow pace, yet in a cinema vérité manner, the film shares with us the excitement and the inner battle of the process of creating music.<ref name="himalmag">{{cite web|url=http://himalmag.com/earnest-real/|title=More than 'earnest' and 'real' - Himal Southasian|date=October 2013|publisher=himalmag.com|accessdate=2016-01-20}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist|30em}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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