Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی) is a BAFTA and Sundance nominated Artist, 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. Gharavi is known for 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, I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA.Sir Ben Kingsley called it "an important and much-needed film." and Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian gave the film 4 stars. 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's showrunner for an Icelandic/British Detective series, Refurrin (The Fox), a loosely-based adaptation of an Icelandic best-seller and detective series.
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1 July 1972 (age 53) Tehran, Iran
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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