Years active 1996-present Name Tina Gharavi | Role Filmmaker Movies I Am Nasrine | |
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Occupation Director, Screenwriter, Producer, University Professor Books Last of the Dictionary Men: Stories from the South Shields Yemeni Sailors Nominations BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer People also search for Shiraz Haq, Micsha Sadeghi, Christian Coulson, James Richard Baillie | ||
Tina gharavi and her critical lens
Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی) is a BAFTA-nominated Film & TV Director and Screenwriter. Gharavi is known for making innovative cross-platform drama about outsiders, outcasts and people in extraordinary situations.
Contents
- Tina gharavi and her critical lens
- Tina Gharavi I Am Nasrine Douglas Hickox Award Directorial Debut
- Biography
- Reviews
- References
Gharavi's award-winning films have been screened internationally, broadcast worldwide on the BBC, Channel 4 (UK), ITV, Showtime, Educational Broadcasting System South Korea, and in the contemporary art world, including multiple screenings at the ICA in London, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (UK) and the Sundance Film Festival. Her works are housed in the permanent collections of MIT, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, British Film Institute, Harvard University Library, Tyne & Wear Archives, Manchester Art Gallery, and the Donnell Library NY amongst others. Gharavi has TV credits to her name including directing second unit in 2017 on The Tunnel the UK equivalent of The Bridge for Sky TV.
Her first feature film, I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA.Sir Ben Kingsley called it "an important and much-needed film." Gharavi has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2003), received a UK Arts Council Decibel Spotlight Award and served as a diversity champion for a variety of organisations as trustee (UK Refugee Council, Arts Council North-East, Tyneside Cinema and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts).
Tina Gharavi - I Am Nasrine - Douglas Hickox Award (Directorial Debut)
Biography
Gharavi was born in Tehran and is based in the UK and Los Angeles. She was raised in the UK, New Zealand, New Jersey and studied filmmaking in France at Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains near Lille, France. In 1998 Gharavi set up the film company, Bridge + Tunnel Productions, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. In 2000, Gharavi set up the Kooch Cinema Group, a media training project, for asylum seekers and refugee participants; a project started after returning to Iran to make a Channel Four commissioned documentary, Mother/Country, where she revisited her mother's house after 23 years. In 2005, she established a separate media charity, Bridge + Tunnel Voices, to undertake the charitable and educational work she initiated mainly working with refugees and asylum seekers; stepping down as the lead creative director in 2015. In 2014, she established Bridge + Tunnel France in Paris, with her partner, James Richard Baillie, to undertake and specialise in European co-productions in France and the rest of Mainland Europe. Gharavi is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle. She is a previous Fellow of the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston and was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017.
Reviews
Peter Bradshaw 4-star review of I Am Nasrine in The Guardian :
Jackie Kay, poet, has said of I Am Nasrine:
Sir Ben Kingsley has said of I Am Nasrine:
Mark Cousins writing about I Am Nasrine:
Shari Frilot, Sundance programmer, has said of Closer:
In The London Evening Standard it was said of Mother/Country:
In the jury statement announced by Jiří Hubička as part of One World Film Festival, The Czech Radio Award, it was said: