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Tina Gharavi is a Director, Writer and Producer American born on 1 july 1972 at Tehran (Iran)

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Nationality USA
Birth 1 july 1972 (52 years) at Tehran (Iran)

Tina Gharavi (Persian: تینا غروی‎) is a filmmaker and screenwriter. Gharavi, is known for making innovative cross-platform films about outsiders, outcasts and marginalised people in extraordinary situations. Best known for her documentary and fiction work focused on issues about strategies of power, including diverse issues such as migration, terrorism-related discrimination, Muslim-identity, social justice and issues related to representation. Gharavi's award-winning films have been shown in film festivals internationally, broadcast on television 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 first feature film, I Am Nasrine was nominated for a BAFTA in 2013 in the category of Best British Debut.

Biography

Gharavi has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, where she completed A Town Like Lackawanna, a film about a Muslim/European immigrant community in America post-9/11. In 2003 she received a UK Arts Council Decibel Spotlight Award.

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 many others. Moviescope Magazine noted her as an up-and-coming UK talent.

Gharavi is currently on the teaching staff in Digital Media at the University of Newcastle, and is frequently a guest lecturer internationally. Gharavi lives and works in South Shields and Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 2008 Gharavi was awarded a UK Heritage Lottery Fund award for an exhibition (documentary, oral history and community photographic project) about multi-culturalism and the Yemeni-Muslim community (who have lived in the North East since 1890), Last of the Dictionary Men. This is a major touring exhibition that launched at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2008 and subsequently has traveled internationally.

Her 2007 commission from Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Asylum Carwash, was an 8-hour installation documentary film project about the existence of modern day slavery and the reality of black market economics for failed asylum seekers in Europe.