MUMBAI: Looks like Onir and Sanjay Suri‘s upcoming film Chauranga is all about crowd sourcing.

After crowd sourcing talent like its publicity designer and background score designer who were picked through an open contest on Facebook, the filmmakers have now resorted to crowd funding for their film to be directed by Bikas Mishra.

Crowd funding is collective pooling of resources by people, usually via the internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organisations.

Chauranga, a fictional account of six days in a dark corner of India, tells the story of class oppression in rural India.

This project was part of Screenwriters‘ Lab at Locarno Film Festival and ScriptStation at Berlin Talent Campus. It won the Incredible India award for the best project at the co-production of NFDC Film Bazaar, Goa 2011. It also received script and project development funding from Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden. It was recently invited for Paris Project, the co-production market of Paris International Film Festival 2012.