Pinny Grylls
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Pinny Grylls (born 1978) is a British filmmaker.
She was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University, where she studied Anthropology and Archaeology. In 2001 she co- founded Invisible Films, and in 2002 co-founded with Rachel Millward the Birds Eye View film festival, which has sinced showcased films by emerging women filmmakers around the country, and is the UK's first major film festival for female filmmakers .
After leaving ‘Birds Eye View’ she went on to make short films ‘Human’ and 'Blackout’, which won her a place on the 2004 Berlin Film Festival Talent Camp. In 2004 she wrote and directed ‘Small Worlds’ starring Zoë Wanamaker .
Her commissioned films since include 14 arts documentaries for ‘Creative Partnerships’ (Arts Council of Great Britain) including 4 films for The Helen Storey Foundation. Her first documentary, Mr and Mrs Smith, is being screened at the Channel Four Britdoc festival in July 2007.
She is one of the recipients of the 2006 Film London UK Film Council Digital Shorts Scheme grants. Her second documentary, 'Peter and Ben', was completed in February 2007.
She is the daughter of British Artist Vaughan Grylls and Theatre Designer Gillian Daniell, and step daughter of publisher Polly Powell.
