Phil Grabsky is a British

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-maker. His film ''In Search of Mozart'' was shown at the Barbican Concert Hall in 2006. ''Escape from Luanda'' (2007) is about three students at the only music school in

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. His books include ''The Great Artists'' – co-authored with

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– and ''The Great Commanders''. In 2009, Grabsky and his colleagues started Exhibition on Screen, a series of documentaries on art exhibitions. It began with 'Leonardo Live'; other topics include

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and

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Feature documentaries

** ''My National Gallery'' (2024) (co-directed with Ali Ray) ** ''Pissarro: Father of Impressionism'' (2022) ** ''My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan'' (2021) ** ''The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin'' (2021) ** ''Sunflowers'' (2021) ** ''Easter in Art'' (2020) ** ''Frida Kahlo'' (2020) ** ''Raphael Revealed'' (2020) ** ''Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait'' (2020) ** ''Leonardo: The Works'' (2019) ** ''Van Gogh and Japan'' (2019) ** ''Young Picasso'' (2019) ** ''Degas: Passion For Perfection'' (2018) ** ''David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts'' (2017) ** ''Michelangelo: Love and Death'' (2017) ** ''The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism'' (2017) ** ''I, Claude Monet'' (2017) ** ''Canaletto and the Art of Venice'' (2017) ** ''The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch'' (2016) ** ''Painting the Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse'' (2016) ** ''Concerto - A Beethoven Journey'' (2015) ** ''Renoir: Revered and Reviled'' (2015) ** ''Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood'' (2015) ** ''The impressionists and the Man Who Made Them'' (2015) ** ''Vincent van Gogh: a New Way of Seeing'' (2015) ** ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' (2015) ** ''Matisse Live'' (2014) ** ''In Search of Chopin'' (2014) ** ''Rembrandt from the National Gallery'' (2014) ** ''Leonardo from the National Gallery'' (2014) ** ''Vermeer'' (2013) ** ''Munch'' (2013) ** ''Manet'' (2012) ** ''Leonardo Live'' (2012) ** ''In Search of Haydn'' (2012) ** ''The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan'' (2011) ** ''In Search of Beethoven'' (2009) ** ''Escape from Luanda'' (2007) ** ''Heavy Water: A Film for Chernoby'' (2006) ** ''In Search of Mozart'' (2006) ** ''The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan'' (2003) ** ''Muhammad Ali – Through the Eyes of the World'' (2001)

Selected TV programmes

Series

*''Great Art'' (2018–present) *''

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: Images of Heaven and Hell'' (2004) *''Great Artists with Tim Marlow'' (2003) *''The Impressionists'' (1998) *''I,

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– The Rise and Fall of the

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'' (1997) *''Ancient Warriors'' (1994-1995) *''The Great Commanders'' (1993) *''Spain – In the Shadow of the Sun'' (1990)

One-offs

*''Witness - A Child of Afghanistan: 20 Years of War'' (2021) 45 minute version of ''My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan'' co-directed with Shoaib Sharifi *''Tim Marlow On..Highlights of the New

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'' (2006) *''The Hidden History of Rome – with

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'' (2001) *''The Hidden History of Egypt – with Terry Jones'' (2001) *''Brazil – An Inconvenient History'' (2000) *''The Lost Temple of Java'' (1999)

Publications

*''The Great Artists: From Giotto to Turner'' by Grabsky and

(2002) *''The Lost Temple of Java'' by Grabsky (1999) *''I, Caesar: Ruling the Roman Empire'' by Grabsky (1997) *''The Great Commanders: Alexander, Caesar, Nelson, Napoleon, Grant and Zhukov'' by Grabsky (1995)

Awards

*''My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021)'' **Best Single Documentary - BAFTA Television Awards (2022) **Best Documentary - Royal Television Society (2022) **Phoenix Award for Best Documentary - Film Festival Cologne (2021) **Best Documentary - Seminici Valladolid International Film Festival (2021) **Golden Reel for Best Documentary - Tiburon Film Festival (2021) **Best International Documentary - DC International Film Festival (2022) **Student Jury Award - One World International Human Rights Film Festival (2022) **Best Documentary Feature - San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (2022) **Best Feature Documentary - Titan International Film Festival (2022) **Best Feature Documentary - Bali International Film Festival (2022) **Author's Documentary - URTI Grand Prix European Film Festival(2022) *''Exhibition on Screen: Matisse (2015)'' **Royal Television Society Southern Awards - Best Non-broadcast (2015) *''The Boy Mir - 10 Years in Afghanistan (2011)'' **Best Documentary - Santa Barbara International Film Festival **Best Foreign Film - HumanDOC Documentary Film Festival, Poland **Runner up: long documentary - Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival *''In Search of Beethoven (2009)'' – Shortlisted: Creative communication - Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards *''Escape from Luanda (2007)'' – Silver Award for Excellence - Park City Film Music Festival *''In Search of Mozart (2006)'' – Best Documentary - Dubrovnik Film Festival *''Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006)'' – Winner – Special Mention - Ourense International Independent Film Festival *''The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2003)'' **Best Film, Cinematography and Editing - Gold Hugo in Chicago **First prize - Valladolid International Film Festival **Best Original Score (Dimitri Tchamouroff) – RTS Awards

References

External links

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Escape from Luandaescapefromluanda.com downloads
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