Anthony Fabian


Anthony Fabian is a British producer and director of feature films, shorts, documentaries and classical music programmes made through his company, Elysian Films. His first feature film, Skin, has won 22 international awards. He has also worked as music supervisor on a number of feature films, including Restoration, GoldenEye, Schubert and Hilary and Jackie.

Professional life

2020 will see the release of Anthony Fabian's feature-length documentary, "Good Hope", exploring the current socio-political landscape of South Africa through the eyes of the post-apartheid generation. His next feature film, based on Paul Gallico's "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," is scheduled for production in May 2020.
Anthony Fabian completed "Louder Than Words" in 2013, an American independent feature film based on true events starring David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Timothy Hutton. It tells the poignant story of John and Brenda Fareri, grieving parents who were inspired by the unexpected death of their young daughter to build a world class children's hospital. The hospital helps the family to heal, as well as looking after thousands of sick children and their families, becoming a model for many children's hospitals thereafter. In 2014, he directed a short film with Freddie Fox and Tuan Yuan called Freeze-Frame for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and his next feature film will be an adaptation of Paul Gallico's much loved 1958 novella, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. He is developing an ongoing television drama series called "Debs", based on "Last Curtsey" by Fiona MacCarthy, with actress Victoria Tennant, and a TV series called "Tivoli", set in New York, with the writer Cynthia Cleese.
Fabian's filmography includes profiles of performers Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Joshua Bell, Angela Gheorghiu, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Renée Fleming, Christophe Rousset, Olli Mustonen, Richard Egarr and composer John Tavener and he has made a number of promotional films for the Tourist Board of Great Britain, VisitBritain, featuring Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Twiggy, Rupert Everett, Luke Evans, Colin Montgomerie, Boris Becker, Jamie Oliver and Matt Smith, including a television commercial featuring people's views about Britain around the world, released in 2017. He is also the producer/director of an eight-part interview series narrated by Sue MacGregor called "British Legends of Stage and Screen", featuring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Michael Gambon, Diana Rigg, Michael York, Glenda Jackson, the late Christopher Lee and Ian McKellen, with Executive Producer Sandy Lieberson. The series was broadcast in the UK on Sky Arts HD.

Personal life

Anthony Fabian grew up in Mexico City, Paris, Los Angeles and the UK, before settling in London. Fabian was the civil partner of Christopher Hogwood, who died in 2014.

Filmography

Films