Gurvinder Singh

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 filmmaking 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 artsartists for the next few years In 2005 he was invited by avantgarde Indian filmmaker Mani Kaul to be his teaching assistant for a masterclass at FTII which led to a close association with the filmmaker who became his mentor