Gurvinder Singh (film Director)

Gurvinder Singh (film Director)

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Gurvinder Singh (film Director) Profile

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Gurvinder Singh (film Director) Biography

Gurvinder Singh is a popular Film Director associated with Punjabi cinema. Anhe Ghore Da Daan, and Chauthi Koot are his best known works up-to-date, and both these films have been showcased at several international film festivals. In 2011, he won the most prestigious National award for best film director for his debut feature film, Anhe Ghore Da Daan. He travelled extensively through Punjab between 2002 and 2006, and has also contributed several documentary films during this period. Most of his documentary works are related to folk tribes, their ballads and oral narratives.

 

He hails from Bir, Himachal Pradesh. He started off his career with documentaries in the year 2003. His first short film Pala was based on one of the Punjabi folk singers, and since then he made several documentaries related to folk and their tradition and music. He also made many short experimental works and documented them. Passage, A Winter Tale, Legs Above my Feet, An Untitled Film etc followed it. He also did the documentary of acclaimed writer Kavalam Narayana Panicker titled Kavalam in English and Malayalam.

 

In 2005 he received an invitation from Mani Kaul to be his teaching assistant for a master-class at FTII. Very soon Mani Kaul became his mentor. He also did the translation of the book - ‘Uncloven Space’, conversations of Udayan Vajpeyi with Mani Kaul. In 2011 he entered cine world through the feature film, Anhe Ghore Da Daan, which earned numerous accolades including National award for best film director. The film received ‘Special Jury Award’ at Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the ‘Golden Peacock’ for Best Film at the International Film Festival of India Goa, and three national film awards.

 

In 2015 he directed his second feature film, Chauthi Koot which won Singapore International Film Festival Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film. Till now he has directed only two feature films, and he is mostly associated with documentary films. After Chauthi Koot, he directed a travelogue film on Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan titled Awaazan, and also one more short film, Ghuspaithia.

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Updated: October 30, 2017

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