RANJU & SANJIT MAJUMDAR
The 24-year-old identical twin brothers Sanjit and Ranju Majumdar were born in Queens to South Asian immigrant parents (father Bangladeshi, mother Indian) and raised in Pompton Lakes, a small, white, working-class town in New Jersey.
In high school, they began making short films and at 16 embarked on their first feature-length production, AN OPTIMISTIC PERSPECTIVE. Two years later, AN OPTIMISTIC PERSPECTIVE (and their whimsical animated short, BOWLING FOR A DREAM) premiered in the Official Selection of the 2004 Lake Placid Film Festival on the very same day as their senior prom. No question, they skipped the prom in favor of attending their first film festival.
Months later, while in their freshman year at Penn State University, the twins participated in the 2005 Berlinale Talent Campus. They waited until the school break, summer of 2005, to begin developing DETERMINISM, which was scripted, shot, and edited during stolen hours while working toward their degrees in New Media. They graduated Summer 2009.
