Timothy Grucza

Who is Timothy Grucza?

Timothy Grucza is a cameraman and documentary film maker. He is best known for his work in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently based in Paris, France.

Grucza began his career in Australia, working on issues in the South Pacific including civil unrest in West Papua. In 1999 he documented repatriated Kosovan Australian refugees, who had escaped the war in Kosovo and were granted safe haven in Australia. He began covering Iraq in 2002 when he entered the Kurdish enclave in the north of the country. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq Grucza worked as a correspondent for the French network Canal+. Since then he has worked extensively in Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Pakistan and Afghanistan for PBS Frontline.

In 2006, along with Yuri Maldavsky, Grucza released his first feature length documentary film named White Platoon. The film is a unique look at a platoon of soldiers who spend one year in Baghdad, entering as idealistic young men and leaving as cynical, sometimes bitter, veterans.