A Band Apart is the name of the production company created by Quentin Tarantino (who used to write scripts with Roger Avary while he was working in a video store in Long Beach, CA), with Lawrence Bender (who trained as a civil engineer).
They gave their company this name, after the French New Wave classic, «Bande à Part» by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, because of his influence on their work.
Four stars of today’s Swiss-French cinema (namely, Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Frédéric Mermoud and Lionel Baier), have recently decided to join forces to create their own production company : “Bande à part Films”.