Tina Gharavi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tina Gharavi

Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1972

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Tina Gharavi

  • Tina Gharavi (Persian: ???? ?????) is a BAFTA-nominated Artist, Film/TV Director and Screenwriter, born in Tehran, who lives in the UK and Los Angeles.
  • She is a global citizen; raised in the UK, New Zealand, New Jersey and studied filmmaking in France at Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, France.
  • Gharavi is known for making innovative cross-platform stories about outsiders, misfits and rebels as well as people in extraordinary situations.
  • Gharavi's work is simultaneously intimate and lyrical, as well as poignant and political.
  • Her work often explores how we tell the stories of 'the other.' Her debut feature film, I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA.Sir Ben Kingsley called it "an important and much-needed film." Gharavi has TV credits to her name including directing on The Tunnel the UK equivalent of The Bridge for Sky and Ackley Bridge for Channel Four TV.
  • She is a Showrunner for an Icelandic/British Detective series, Refurrin (The Fox), Exec-ed by Hilary Bevan Jones (Endor/Red Arrow) and Nicky Bentham (Moon). Gharavi is Sundance-nominated director.
  • She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, received a UK Arts Council Decibel Spotlight Award and served as a diversity champion for a variety of organisations (UK Refugee Council, Arts Council North-East, Tyneside Cinema and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts).
  • Gharavi is also an Associate Professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle.
  • She was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017 and received a Fellowship from the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston.

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