San Banarje is an American filmmaker. He was born in

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to an orthodox Bengali

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, family but never practiced any religion and went on to produce several Christian films. A resident of

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, San is also an entrepreneur.

Films

In late 2009, he shot the thriller

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, once again starring

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in Calcutta which he co-wrote with Trisha Ray, directed, shot, produced and acted in. The film won the Platinum Remi award at the Houston Worldfest International Film Festival, Best of the Fest at Gulf Coast Film Festival, Best Foreign Film at Alexandria Film Festival, Best Film at Bare Bones Film Festival where San received an Indie Auteur award. In the summer of 2011, San co-produced the film "Inside Out" with producing partner and writer Brian Stewart. A month later, he wrote and directed the film The Nowhere Son starring

, and himself in the lead. Eminent movie critic

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named the film in his list of 'Five Not to Miss Movies at Worldfest 2013'. The film also garnered rave reviews when screened at

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. In 2015, San directed and produced the comedy 'A Curry on an American Plate' with actors

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, Andrea Guasch and

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on a screenplay that he co-wrote with Trisha Ray, based on a story that he had written back in 2007.

Awards

Filmography

* ''Flipped'' (2000) Feature (actor, producer, executive producer) * ''The Mission'' (2004) Short (director, cinematographer, actor, writer, producer) * ''Closure'' (2005) Short (producer) * ''The Enemy Inside'' (2005) Short (director, writer, producer) * ''Striking Range'' (2006) Feature (actor) * ''Bleep Love'' (2006) Feature (actor, producer, executive producer) * ''Money'' (2007) Feature (director, cinematographer, producer, executive producer) * ''Federal Case'' (2007) Feature (cinematographer, producer) * ''Stanislavski in September'' (2008) short (cinematographer, producer) * ''Train'' (2008) short (writer, director, cinematographer, producer) * ''Sugarbaby'' (2009) Feature (actor, cinematographer, producer) * ''Terracotta'' (2009) short(director, actor) * ''

'' (2009) feature (writer, director, actor, cinematographer, producer, executive producer) * ''Cleaning Up'' (2010) short (writer, director, cinematographer, producer ) * ''Inside Out'' (2011) Feature (actor, producer) * '' The Nowhere Son'' (2011) Feature ( writer, director, cinematographer, producer, actor) * ''Marcha Atras'' (2011) short (executive producer) * ''Semper Fi'' (2012) short ( writer, director, cinematographer, producer) * ''Detect Early Save Life'' (2012) PSA (writer, director, producer) * ''Physiotherapy'' (2013) short (actor) * ''Artisse'' (2013) feature (cinematographer, producer) * ''Sex, Marriage and Infidelity'' (2014) feature (cinematographer, producer) * ''The Shadow Behind You'' (2015) feature - Maggie (writer, director, cinematographer, actor, producer, executive producer) * ''A Curry on an American Plate'' (2017) feature (writer, director, cinematographer, producer, executive producer) * ''Orphan Train'' (2017) feature (actor, producer)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Banarje, San Film directors from Texas Film directors from Kolkata Indian emigrants to the United States Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Bengali descent Bengali people American people of Indian descent Bengali Brahmins