Pinny Grylls

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Pinny Grylls is a documentary filmmaker.

In 2002, Grylls and Rachel Millward co-founded the Birds Eye View Film Festival. [1] BEV showcased films by emerging women filmmakers from around the world and became the UK's first major film festival for female filmmakers.

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Grylls directed the 2007 multi award-winning short documentary 'Peter and Ben'. [2] It screened at London International Film Festival [3] and IDFA [4] where it was nominated for prestigious Silver Cub Award. It won Best Documentary at Aspen Shorts Fest 2008 and 3 awards at the 5th London Short Film Festival – the FourDocs Award for Best Documentary the VX Auteur Award and 'Highly Commended' for the Best Film Award. It also won the SXSouthWest Click Grand Jury Prize in 2008. It also screened in the International Competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2008. In 2009, it won the Shooting People Werner Herzog Competition. [5]

In 2010, she directed a First Cut episode for Channel 4; "Who Do You Think You Were?" explored the phenomenon of past life regression. [6]

On 19 December 2010, Grylls was featured in an Observer article as one of a crop of 'innovative daring directors' making short films for the web. [7] Observer, 19 December 2010.[ citation needed ]

In 2012, Pinny Grylls made The Hour [8] for The National Theatre, and in 2014 Becoming Zerlina [9] for The Royal Opera House. In 2015 she made Thank you Women for the Guardian [10] for The Guardian . In 2021, she made Skin Hunger for Theatre Company Dante or Die. [11]

She is the director of Hear My Voice a feature film. [12] It is also supported by Future Foundation for London. [13]

In 2014, Pinny wrote The Very Best Sheepdog, illustrated by Rosie Wellesley, published by Pavilion Books. [14]

Personal life

As a child, Grylls attended Children's Film Unit and Westminster School. She studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Oxford at Hertford College. She is the daughter of British artist Vaughan Grylls and theatre designer Gillian Daniell, and step daughter of publisher Polly Powell. She is married to actor Sam Crane. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "History". Birds Eye View Film.
  2. ↑ "Peter and Ben". IMDb. 12 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "My Top 10 scenes: Pinny Grylls". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  4. ↑ oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam. "Peter and Ben | IDFA" – via idfa.nl.
  5. ↑ Pahle, Rebecca (21 July 2009). "Shooting People Invites Encounters With Werner Herzog". MovieMaker Magazine. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "TV review: Who Do You Think You Were". The Guardian. 3 September 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Short films: Meet the directors who grab your attention and don't let go". The Guardian. 19 December 2010.
  8. ↑ https://psyche.co/films/what-its-like-to-be-an-actor-in-the-final-hour-before-the-play-begins
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGB8mwgTu0
  10. ↑ Grylls, Pinny; Riddell, Juliet; Phillips, Charlie (8 March 2015). "Thank you women: 'You looked at me and realised what I needed' – video". The Guardian.
  11. ↑ https://danteordie.com/skin-hunger-on-film
  12. ↑ "Hear My Voice ⋆ Hear My Voice". Hear My Voice.
  13. ↑ https://future.london/project/hear-my-voice/#:~:text='Hear%20My%20Voice'%20is%20a,that%20is%20authentically%20East%20London.
  14. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Best-Sheepdog-Pinny-Grylls/dp/1843652196
  15. ↑ Interview with Sam Crane, Evening Times , 21 July 2009
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