Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi
Gharavi at the Story Engine Screenwriting Conference, UK
Born	Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Professor
Years active	1996-present
Website	http://www.bridgeandtunnelproductions.com

Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی‎‎) is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, director and activist. Gharavi is known for making innovative cross-platform films about outsiders, outcasts and marginalised people in extraordinary situations.

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 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). In 2014, Moviescope Magazine noted her as an up-and-coming UK talent. Her first feature film, I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA in the category of Best British Debut.Sir Ben Kingsley called it "an important and much-needed film."