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 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 . 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 ' His first short film '' Pala '' was a documentary based on one of the Punjabi folk singers and was sponsored by India Foundation for the Arts ( IFA ) . He directed his first fiction feature in Punjabi , '' Anhe Ghore Da Daan '' ( English : '' Alms for a Blind Horse '' ) in 2011 . The film , based on the novel of the same name by well-known Punjabi writer Gurdial Singh , dealt with the angst and distress of the marginalised lower caste in Punjab . The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and screened at various festivals including Rotterdam , Busan , London , Munich , etc , besides releasing at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) , New York . It won the ‘ Special Jury Award ’ at Abu Dhabi Film Festival , and the ‘ Golden Peacock ’ for Best Film at the International Film Festival of India , Goa , in 2012 . It also won three National Awards in India , including National Film Award for Best Direction and National Film Award for Best Cinematography ’ at the 59th National Film Awards presented on 3 May 2012 . The award consisted of ' Golden Lotus Award ( Swarna Kamal ) ' , a certificate and a cash prize of / - . The jury presented the awards for , His second feature Chauthi Koot ( The Fourth Direction ) , an Indo-French co-production , premiered in ‘ Un Certain Regard ’ competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 . Based on two short stories by Punjabi writer Waryam Singh Sandhu , the film explores the fear , mistrust and paranoia in Punjab in the background of the militant unrest in the 1980s . The New York Times write in one review , The film has travelled to various international festivals and won the ‘ Grand Prix ’ at the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival , the Singapore International Film Festival Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film . and the ‘ Golden Gateway ’ for Best Indian Film at the Mumbai Film Festival . It received the National Award for ‘ Best Punjabi Film ’ in 2015 . The film recently had a commercial release in France and is due to release in India in August 2016
59th National Film Awards
59th National Film Awards
Gurvinder Singh