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![]() Currently in production are In Search of Haydn and Piano Notes – A History of the Piano with Ronald Brautigam. Both films featured in Channel 4’s new arts strand. Two more co-directed films with David Bickerstaff are Making War Horse - a film following the production of the smash theatre hit War Horse and The Making of Swallows and Amazons – the Bristol Old Vic Sets Sail. ![]() Working with co-director David Bickerstaff, he has also completed the Oscar-longlisted short documentary Heavy Water: a Journey to Chernobyl, which uses Mario Petrucci’s poetry to explore the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Phil has also made six award-winning history films with Monty Python’s Terry Jones. Among Phil’s many other films are one-offs for BBC strands ‘Timewatch’ and ‘Reputations’ as well as major series such as Channel 4‘s ‘Spain – in the Shadow of the Sun’ and ‘The Great Commanders’, BBC’s ‘I Caesar’ and Five & Sky Arts’s ‘Tim Marlow’ arts strand. In cinemas, Phil’s films have been a great success: in Australia, for example, both In Search of Mozart and In Search of Beethoven have entered the all-time top grossing documentaries. ![]() These films have played in festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards for Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Screenwriting, Best Editing, Best Music. Phil’s cinema films include Muhammad Ali – Through the Eyes of the World, The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, In Search of Mozart, Escape from Luanda, In Search of Beethoven and, most recently, The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan. With a film career spanning 25 years, Phil and his company Seventh Art Productions make films for cinema, television and DVD. ![]() Phil Grabsky is an award-winning documentary film-maker. What difference has America’s and other allies’ input had on this country? Is there still a chance that Mir will end up as a soldier or opium farmer and, if so, can this cycle ever really be changed? The US alone spends $60bn a year keeping soldiers there – but to what effect? Are they losing the hearts & minds battle or are they protecting the young boys – and girls – who attend Mir’s bare and tiny school? This is a film that reveals in a uniquely moving and intimate fashion what has been happening in Afghanistan over the past decade since the November 2001 fall of the Taliban. In sum, this is a unique portrayal of life, full of humour, full of poignancy, in today’s Afghanistan. This is hard enough for any child, but Mir has to face this challenge in modern Afghanistan. The narrative is driven by Mir’s journey into his early teens, when he will be expected to put his childish ways behind him and begin the difficult process of becoming a man. The Boy Mir reveals this day-to-day life of Mir and his family from a very close-up perspective. This is a journey into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth and a journey that mirrors the vitally important story of Afghanistan. Over ten years in Afghanistan, THE BOY MIR tracks cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown eighteen-year-old. His aim was to produce a cinema film that would explore the lives of ordinary Afghans. British film-maker Phil Grabsky travelled to central Afghanistan a few months after the fall of the Taliban.
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