Phil Grabsky
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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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Behind the Camera
American Masters
Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Escritor
Vermeer and Music
Director
Ancient Inventions
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
Productor Ejecutivo
Caravaggio
Director
Hopper: An American Love Story
Director, Productor, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Director
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
Director
Easter in Art
Director
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
Escritor, Director
Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
Productor
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Director
I, Claude Monet
Productor, Director, Dir. de Fotografía
The Impressionists with Tim Marlow
Productor, Director
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
Productor
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Director
In Search of Mozart
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Escritor
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Productor Ejecutivo, Productor
Young Picasso
Director
In Search of Beethoven
Director
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Escritor, Director
In Search of Chopin
Director, Escritor
Leonardo: The Works
Productor Ejecutivo, Escritor, Director
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
Director
The Great Commanders
Creator
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
Productor
In Search of Haydn
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Productor, Escritor
My National Gallery, London
Director
Turner & Constable
Productor