Gurvinder Singh

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Gurvinder Singh
Gurvinder Singh at the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival, 2017
NationalityIndian
OccupationDirector

Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director. He is best known for his Punjabi language films Anhe Ghore Da Daan, and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction) which premiered at Venice and Cannes Film Festival[1] respectively. Gurvinder is an alumnus of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune from where he studied film-making and graduated in 2001.[2][3] He travelled extensively through Punjab between 2002 and 2006, living and traveling with folk itinerants, documenting folk ballads and oral narratives. It led to his first documentary 'Pala'. He continued to make short experimental works and documenting arts/artists for the next few years. In 2005 he was invited by avant-garde Indian filmmaker Mani Kaul to be his teaching assistant for a master-class at FTII, which led to a close association with the filmmaker who became his mentor. He translated and published a book of conversations of Udayan Vajpeyi with Mani Kaul, titled 'Uncloven Space'. His latest film is 'Infiltrator' starring Veer Rajwant Singh which is a 15-minute short story in an international omnibus called 'In the same garden'

  1. ^ "Punjabi film 'Chauthi Koot' goes to Cannes". Times of India. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Gurvinder Singh". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. ^ "I wasn't expecting national award: Gurvinder Singh". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. IANS. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.