Director

Gurvinder Singh

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1085930

IMDb ID: nm4003178

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Delhi, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2026

Years active: 16

Average TMDB rating: 6.81

Wikidata: Q5620585

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Biography

Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director. He is best known for his Punjabi language films Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms for a Blind Horse), and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction) which premiered at Venice and Cannes Film Festival respectively. Gurvinder is an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune from where he studied film-making and graduated in 2001. He travelled extensively through Punjab between 2002 and 2006, living and wandering 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.

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