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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. She has been nominated for BAFTA and Sundance awards.[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 entering the film industry.[3]
Career
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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][11]
Gharavi is an associate professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of Newcastle.[12] She was invited to join the BAFTA Academy in 2017 and received a Fellowship from the MIT Documentary Lab in Boston.[13]
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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.[11][14]
Selected filmography
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