Phil Grabsky
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Born 1964-01-01
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Phil Grabsky is a British documentary film-maker based in Brighton, East Sussex. His company Seventh Art Productions has produced documentaries for television and cinema.
Grabsky’s work such as I, Caesar, Spain - In the Shadow on the Sun, The Great Commanders and the Tim Marlow on... series, has been broadcast on various U.K. channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Five and Sky Arts, and internationally around the world.
His film The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan was released in cinemas in 2003 and tells the story of 8-year-old Mir and his family living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The film has been shown across the globe and won 13 awards including the Gold Hugo in Chicago for Best Film and first prize at the Valladolid International Film Festival. Phil is continuing to film Mir and his family in Afghanistan.
2006 saw the completion of In Search of Mozart. The film illustrates the life and work of the composer through interviews and live performance. The film premiered at London’s Barbican concert hall. Subsequently it has gone on to become one of the top 100 grossing documentaries in Australia.
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006) explores the Chernobyl nuclear disaster through Mario Petrucci’s poetry. Phil worked in conjunction with director David Bickerstaff for this project which went on to win Best Short Documentary at the Cinequest International Film Festival.
In 2007 Grabsky completed Escape from Luanda which tells the tale of three students at Angola’s only music school.
Phil Grabsky's most recent film In Search of Beethoven, focusing on the life and work of the German composer was released in 2009.
In addition to making films, Phil has released four books and often serves as a judge for various awards including BAFTA, Emmys, RTS and the One World awards.
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Filmography
Directing
40 credits
American Masters
Ancient Inventions
Hopper: An American Love Story
Caravaggio
The Impressionists with Tim Marlow
I, Claude Monet
Leonardo: The Works
Easter in Art
Young Picasso
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Escape from Luanda
Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
My National Gallery, London
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Raphael Revealed
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Matisse
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism
In Search of Chopin
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
In Search of Beethoven
Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
The Hidden History of Rome
Manet: Portraying Life
In Search of Haydn
Making War Horse
In Search of Mozart
Renoir: Reviled and Revered
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London
Nero's Golden House
Vermeer and Music
The Hidden History of Egypt
The Boy Mir
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
El fascinante mundo de El Bosco
The Boy who plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan
Producing
22 credits
Ancient Inventions
Hopper: An American Love Story
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
Klimt & The Kiss
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Impressionists with Tim Marlow
I, Claude Monet
Leonardo: The Works
Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
Munch 150
My National Gallery, London
Turner & Constable
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
James McNeill Whistler
In Search of Haydn
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
Making War Horse
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
Writing
17 credits
American Masters
Ancient Inventions
Hopper: An American Love Story
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Leonardo: The Works
My National Gallery, London
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
The Great Commanders
In Search of Chopin
In Search of Haydn
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
In Search of Mozart
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London
Nero's Golden House
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
Acting
4 credits
American Masters
Hopper: An American Love Story
In Search of Mozart
The Boy who plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan
Other credits
4 credits
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