Soumyajit Majumdar is an actor-writer-director-producer and Founder-Director of LOK Arts Collective (launched on January 3, 2010) - revered for pioneering the youth-in-arts movement in Kolkata. An alumni of St.Xavier's College, Kolkata (Mass Communication and Videography) , #Homecoming (Project selected during scripting stage and mentored at NFDC Producer's Lab Film Bazaar 2019, Goa) is his first feature film as a writer-director-producer. Besides being an independent multi-disciplinary artist and artpreneur, he has acted in 25 varied feature films before taking a break to make #Homecoming.
As one of the leading actors , he has been part of festival favourites Catsticks directed by Ronny Sen (Honorary mention @World Narratives Grand Jury Prize -Slamdance International Film festival 2019, Best Film at Mammoth Film Festival, Oldenburgh Film Festival, Germany, IFFLA 2019, NYIFF 2019, KIFF 2019, Tallin Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 2019 Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival 2019 and San Francisco Indie Fest 2020) and as a lead actor in Ghost Of The Golden Groves directed by Roshni Sen and Aniket Dutta (Official selection- London Indian Festival 2019, FDNC Montreal 2019, Nominee FIPRESCI award, Festival De Noveau Cinema 2019, Winner best Ghost music video and Hybrid Feature, Opening film at Chicago Underground Film Festival 2020,Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2020) . He has also acted in other festival favourites 'Gandu' directed by Q ( Berlin International Film Festival 2011, SAIFF, Seattle, Slamdance), French film Crash Test Aglae directed by Eric Gravel(Cannes International Film Festival 2017) and has played pivotal roles in commercially successful Hindi and Bengali films like Aashiqui 2, Har Har Byomkesh, Bibaho Diaries, Byomkesh Pawrbo and Zulfiqar. Soumyajit has also been a part of more than 30 feature films and national advertisements as casting director and/or line producer.
