The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky
Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of [...]
The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan - Phil Grabsky
An eight-year-old boy called Mir Hussain, living in a cave in Bamiyan, Afghanistan may not appear to be the most obvious choice for a feature length documentary but producer/director Phil Grabsky’s film The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan uses Mir’s individual story to show how life is lived by ordinary Afghans post-Taliban [...]
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