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Tina Gharavi
تینا غروی
Gharavi on the set of The Tunnel
Born (1972-07-01) 1 July 1972 (age 52)[1]
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Occupation(s)Artist, director, screenwriter, professor
Years active1998–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی born 1 July 1972) is an Iranian-born British BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter.

Early life and education

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Gharavi was born in Tehran. She attended high school in New Jersey. While in high school, she worked for a production designer for a film shooting on the Jersey shore.[2]

Career

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Her debut, I Am Nasrine, was nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding debut.[3] Sir Ben Kingsley, a patron of the film,[4][5] called it "an important and much-needed film".[6] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars, writing that it was "a valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry".[3]

In addition to film, Gharavi directed two episodes of The Tunnel, the UK equivalent of The Bridge for Sky and Ackley Bridge for Channel 4. She is a showrunner for an Icelandic/British Detective series, Refurinn (The Fox), an adaptation of an Icelandic best-selling detective series by Sólveig Pálsdóttir.[7]

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 organizations (UK Refugee Council, Arts Council North-East, Tyneside Cinema and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts). Gharavi is an associate professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle.[8] She was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017 and received a Fellowship from the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston.

Production

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Gharavi established the film company Bridge + Tunnel Productions, which will produce The Fox.[7]

Selected filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2001 Closer Director/Producer
2002 Mother/Country Director/Producer
2002 A Town Like Lackawanna Director/Producer/Camera
2004 Featherhead Director/Producer Short film
2006 Bread: Nearest Neighbor: Israel & Palestine Director/Producer Documentary installation
2007 Asylum Carwash Director/Producer Documentary installation
2007 Two Lighthouses Director/Producer
2007 Perfect to Begin Producer Short film
2007–2013 Last of the Dictionary Men Artist Documentary installation
2008 The King of South Shields Director/Producer
2013 I Am Nasrine Director/Producer/Screenwriter
2015 People Like Us Director/Producer/Screenwriter Documentary short
2020 Tribalism Is Killing Us Director/Producer
2023 A Beirut Love Story Director/Screenwriter
TBA Night and Day Director
TBA The Good Iranian Director/Producer/Screenwriter

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2017 The Tunnel: Vengeance Second unit director
2018 Ackley Bridge Director Episodes 5, 6
2023 African Queens: Queen Cleopatra Director
TBA Refurinn/The Fox Director

References

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  1. ^ "Tina Gharavi". IMDb. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Tina Gharavi: Q&A". Guru.bafta.org. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b Bradshaw, Peter. "I Am Nasrine – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  4. ^ "I AM NASRINE". Brooklyn Film Festival. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Tina Gharavi". Primetime. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  6. ^ "BEV chats to I Am Nasrine dir. Tina Gharavi | Birds Eye View". birds-eye-view.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015.
  7. ^ a b Clarke, Stewart. "'African Queens: Cleopatra' Director Tina Gharavi Options Icelandic Bestseller & Tees Up International Crime Thriller Series 'The Fox'". Deadline. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Tina Gharavi · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
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