Grant Gulczynski, born in 1991, is a British filmmaker based in London and Sarajevo. Educated in Digital Film Production at the University of Gloucestershire, he graduated in 2012, attaining a First Class BA(hons) with his thesis film ‘ANNA 1991’. Which screened at the renowned Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.

Post-Graduation he worked professionally as an Assistant Producer on the documentary ‘Choice Point’, featuring Richard Branson and James Caan, and as an Assistant Director on various NHS funded short film projects dealing with mental disability. Whilst also producing his own short films such as ‘alex and alice, a couple’ that premiered at the London Short Film Festival in 2013.

From 2013 - 2015 Grant split his time between London and Sarajevo, as he undertook a PhD in Liberal Arts Filmmaking at the film.factory. Béla Tarr was impressed by the ‘rare tenderness, empathy and high sensibility’ of his short films and accepted him, to be part of the first generation of students, when he set up the doctorate level film.factory programme in 2013. Under his mentorship Grant is developing his craft as a filmmaker and, with his colleagues, seeking to create a new language for the filmic landscape. He graducated in March 2016, being awarded an A. 

His debut feature as a producer and co-director ‘Lost in Bosnia’, a film essay about film and filmmaking itself, is currently doing the festival circuit with screenings at CPH:DOX and Hong Kong International Film Festival. His latest short project ‘The Mechanics’ was selected for the NISI MASA European Short Pitch, where he developed the film under the mentorship of script doctors and pitched the project to potential producers.

Having trained exclusively in the field of the digital image he has developed an intense focus on the immediacy of the medium, opposed to the traditional film. He believes that in a society where we are overloaded with images and sounds the digital film is not created to be viewed repeatedly. Therefore, it is the filmmakers job to provoke a response from the audience so the meaning of the work is not forgotten, like the image itself.

Grant is a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust’s Study Abroad Scholarship 2013- 2015.

1. Doctor of Liberal Art Film Direction

   film.factory · Feb 2013 - Mar 2016

2. BA (hons) Digital Film Production

   University of Gloucestershire · Sep 2009 - Jul 2012