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Tina Gharavi

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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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Born in Tehran, around the time of Islamic Revolution she moved to the United Kingdom, then New Zealand, and finally New Jersey, United States. Gharavi attended high school in suburban New Jersey, spending part of her life in Red Bank, close to the Jersey Shore. Gharavi initially trained as a painter at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She later attended Le Fresnoy studio National des arts contemporains, near Lille, France. She currently splits her time between Newcastle, England, Paris, and Venice Beach, California.[2]

Career

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

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.[citation needed]

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.[5] 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, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1998.[6]

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
2025 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. ^ "Tina Gharavi: Q&A". Guru.bafta.org. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Tina Gharavi · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Tina Gharavi: Q&A". Guru.bafta.org. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
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