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Tina Gharavi
Film director, screenwriter, producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی born 1 July 1972) is an Iranian-born British artist, director and screenwriter. Her 2013 debut feature I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA award.[1] Her projects explore themes of equality and diversity.[2]
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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 an on-set experience for a Hollywood production prompted her to pursue a career in the film industry.[3][4] She later studied near Lille in France at Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains[5]
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Her directorial debut, Closer, is a 35mm experimental documentary which premiered at Sundance 2001 won the PlantOut Grand Prize at Outfest in LA.[6] Her following documentary, Mother/Country, which chronicled her return to her mother’s house in Iran 23 years after the Islamic Revolution, was broadcast in the UK on Channel Four TV.[7] In 2010, she was chosen as one of nine emerging directors to be mentored as part of the UK Film Council’s Guiding Lights scheme.[8]
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.[9] Sir Ben Kingsley, a patron of the film,[10][11] called it "an important and much-needed film".[12] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars, writing that it was "a valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry".[9]
In April 2023, Gharavi addressed criticism regarding the casting of mix-race actress Adele James as Cleopatra in the Netflix series Queen Cleopatra,[13] which she directed, distributed by Netflix and produced by Jada Pinkettt Smith's Westbrook Studios.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16]
Gharavi is a Reader in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle,[17] where she completed her PhD, Narrative Cannibals: Whose Story Is It Anyway? The Politics of Representation and the Veracity of the Image in the Age of Digital Storytelling.[18][19] She was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017 and received a Fellowship from the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston,[20] where she is working on her next feature project in collaboration with Film4, The Good Iranian.[21]
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Production
In 1998, Gharavi established the film company Bridge +Tunnel Productions, a multidisciplinary media production company. The company uses media to highlight underrepresented stories from minority and marginalized communities.[22]
Selected filmography
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