Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi ( born 1 July 1972) is an Iranian-born British BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter. Early life and education Born in Tehran, her family moved to the United Kingdom, then New Zealand, and finally New Jersey, United States. Gharavi attended high school in suburban New Jersey, spending part of her life in Red Bank, close to the Jersey Shore. Gharavi initially trained as a painter at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She later attended Le Fresnoy studio National des arts contemporains, near Lille, France. She currently splits her time between Newcastle, England and Venice Beach, California. Career Gharavi is known for her innovative cross-platform stories about rebels, misfits, and outsiders as well as people in extraordinary situations. According to The Spectator, Gharavi's work is simultaneously intimate and lyrical, as well as poignant and political. Her debut, 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, writing that it was "a valuable debut, shot with a fluent kind of poetry." 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 4. She is a showrunner for an Icelandic/British Detective series, Refurinn (The Fox), an adaptation of an Icelandic best-selling detective series by Sólveig Pálsdóttir.