Tina Gharavi
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Tina Gharavi (Template:Langx born 1 July 1972) is an Iranian-born British artist, director and screenwriter. She has been nominated for BAFTA and Sundance awards.[1] Her projects explore themes of equality and diversity.[2]
Early life and education
Gharavi was born in Tehran. She attended high school in New Jersey. She initially trained as a painter in the United States before entering the film industry.[3]
Career
In 2011, Gharavi directed two episodes of The Tunnel, the British adaptation of The Bridge for Sky, as well as two episodes of Ackley Bridge for Channel 4. Her debut feature film, I Am Nasrine, was released in 2013. It was nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding debut.[4] Sir Ben Kingsley, a patron of the film,[5][6] called it "an important and much-needed film".[7] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars, writing that it was "a valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry".[4]
In April 2023, Gharavi addressed criticism regarding the casting of Black actress Adele James as Cleopatra in the Netflix series Queen Cleopatra, which she directed.[8] In 2024, Gharavi was announced as the director of The Shah, the Spy and the Madman, a documentary series on the 1953 coup d'état in Iran.[9] In December of that year, Gharavi was announced as the showrunner for The Fox, an international crime thriller series based on the bestselling Icelandic detective novels by Sólveig Pálsdóttir.[10]
Gharavi is an associate professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle.[11] She was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017 and received a Fellowship from the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston.[12]
Production
In 1998, Gharavi established the film company Bridge +Tunnel, a multidisciplinary media production company. The company uses media to highlight underrepresented stories from minority and marginalized communities.[13]
Selected filmography
Film
| 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
| 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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External links
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- Living people
- 1972 births
- Iranian film directors
- British film directors
- British directors
- Film directors from New Jersey
- New Zealand film directors
- Iranian women film directors
- British women film directors
- Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Iranian emigrants to the United States
- Film people from Tehran
- Iranian women screenwriters