Pinny Grylls

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Pinny Grylls (born 1978) is a British Filmmaker.

Pinny graduated from Oxford University in 1999, where she studied Anthropology and Archaeology. In 2001 she co- founded Invisible Films to make her first short film ‘Photographing Invisible Things’. In 2002 Pinny and Rachel Millward co-founded the ‘Birds Eye View film festival' showcasing films by emerging women 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 short film ‘Small Worlds’ starring Zoë Wanamaker and Executive Produced by Simon Channing Williams.

For the last two years Pinny has concentrated on directing documentary. Commissioned films include 14 short arts documentaries for ‘Creative Partnerships’ (Arts Council of Great Britain) including 4 films for ‘The Helen Storey Foundation’. Pinny has recently completed her first (non commissioned) short documentary ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’. The film is being screened at the Channel Four Britdoc festival in July as part of the fourdocs competition.

She is one of the recipients of the 2006 Film London UK Film Council Digital Shorts Scheme grants.

She is the daughter of British Artist Vaughan Grylls and Theatre Designer Gillian Daniell, and step daughter of publisher Polly Powell.

For more information on Invisible Films and Pinny Grylls see InvisibleFilms.com