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Phil Grabsky
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Phil Grabsky is a British documentary film-maker based in Brighton, East Sussex. His company Seventh Art Productions has produced documenta…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phil Grabsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
James McNeill Whistler
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2026
Turner & Constable
Movie Producer
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2025
Caravaggio
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2025
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
Movie Producer
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2024
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
Movie Producer
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2024
My National Gallery, London
Movie Director
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2024
John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
Movie Producer
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2023
Klimt & The Kiss
Movie Producer
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2023
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Hopper: An American Love Story
Movie Producer
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2022
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism
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2021
Raphael Revealed
Movie Director
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2021
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
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2020
Easter in Art
Movie Director
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2019
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
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2019
Leonardo: The Works
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2019
Young Picasso
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- 2018
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2018
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Movie Writer
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2017
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
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2017
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Movie Director
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2017
El fascinante mundo de El Bosco
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2017
I, Claude Monet
Movie Director
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2016
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
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2016
Renoir: Reviled and Revered
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2016
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
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2016
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
Movie Writer
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2015
Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
Movie Director
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2015
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
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2015
Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
Movie Director
- 2015
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2014
Matisse
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2014
In Search of Chopin
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2013
Vermeer and Music
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2013
Munch 150
Movie Executive Producer
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2013
Manet: Portraying Life
Movie Director
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2012
Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London
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2012
In Search of Haydn
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2011
The Boy Mir
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2009
Making War Horse
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