Phil Grabsky is an award-winning documentary film-maker. With a film career spanning 20 years, Phil and his company Seventh Art Productions make films for cinema and television. Phil’s cinema films include The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which has played worldwide and, to date, has won thirteen awards, including first prize at Valladolid International Film Festival, and the Gold Hugo in Chicago for Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Phil is continuing to film in Afghanistan. In early 2006 Phil completed the first ever feature-length documentary on the life of Mozart, In Search of Mozart, which contains performances and interviews with dozens of today’s finest performers. It premiered to over 1000 people at London’s Barbican concert hall, and has now been broadcast on over twenty channels across the world, as well as gaining cinema distribution. In Australian cinemas, within weeks, it entered the all-time Top 100 grossing documentaries. More recently, working with co-director David Bickerstaff, he has also completed Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl, which uses Mario Petrucci’s poetry to explore the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The film recently won the Best Short Documentary at the Cinequest International Film Festival. Phil has also written four history books and is regularly involved as a judge for the Emmys, Bafta, RTS and One World awards. Phil recently completed cinema/TV documentary Escape from Luanda which was shown throughout 2008 and is currently releasing ‘In Search of Beethoven’ in cinemas across the world. He is also continuing to follow Mir from ‘The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan’; until he turns 18 in his new feature documentary, ‘The Boy Mir’; due for completion in 2011.