The Fourth Direction is the second Indian film after The Lunchbox to secure funding from Cnc’s World Cinema Support fund. Cnc is established in 2012 to support international co-productions.
Directed by Gurvinder Singh, the film also boasts of Satya Nagpaul, who won best cinematography at India’s National Film Awards in 2011 for Singh’s Alms For The Blind Horse.
The film is now a co-production between France’s Catherine Dussart Productions, India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Cafe and Sunil Doshi’s Handmade Films.
The movie is going to hit floors by mid January 2014. The movie plots on two short stories by Punjabi writer Waryam Singh Sandhu. The film is supposed to be shot extensively in Punjab locales.
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