Tina Pakravan (; born 17 April 1977) is an Iranian film director, writer, producer, and actress.Tina Pakravan on SourehCinema.com
Career
Tina Pakravan was born in 1977 in Tehran. She did a B.A. in movie directing from Tehran Faculty of Cinema and Theater. Her cinematic career was begun with contributing to the magazine Gozāresh-e Film in 1995, followed by her contribution to such magazines as Abrār-e Sinamāyi (Persian: ), Sedā, Durbin, Harakat (), and Fakur () weekly.
At the age of eighteen, Pakravan acted as the script girl of the movie Yās-hā-ye Vahshi (Persian: ; The Wild Jasmines), directed by Mohsen Mohseninasab. In the movie Killing Mad Dogs (), directed by Bahram Bayzai, Pakravan was the director's assistant. In two TV series, Ta’tilāt-e Nowruzi (; Nowruz Holidays), a production of IRIB TV2, and Rāz-e Sokut (; Silence’s Secret), she was the programmer as well as deputy production manager.
Pakravan went to the United States to continue with her education, where she majored in cinema at UCLA. There she made two short movies: Ro’yā (; Dream), starring Behzad Farahani and Mozhgan Rabbani, and Actor Actor (). She also made the documentary Hamrāh bā Irāniān (; Accompanied by Iranians) for Jām-e Jam TV, which deals with the lives of Iranians in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Back in Iran, Pakravan collaborated with Seyyed Zia’eddin Dorri in the production of the TV series Kolāh-e Pahlavi (The Pahlavi Hat; ) as the directing programmer and director's first assistant. She went on to collaborate with the director Dariush Mehrjoui as the production manager of the movie Santuri. She was also the production manager and programmer of the movies Vaghti Hame Khābim (; When We Are All Asleep), directed by Bahram Bayzai, and Ekhrājihā 2 (; The Outcasts, Part 2), directed by Masoud Dehnamaki.
Pakravan's third short film was named Gereh (; Knot), starring Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia, Sara Khoeniha, Shaqayeq Farahani, and Mehrab Rezayi.
Pakravan's acting debut was the TV series Sāl-hā-ye Mashrouteh (; The Years of The Constitution), in which she was also the production manager, stage designer, and script consultant.فرهنگی/ تینا پاکروان منم ـ خانوادهٔ سبز ksabz.net
Teaching, writing books, translating, and writing critiques for the press, as well as holding photo exhibitions are among her other activities. varite.net
Filmography
Film YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressMake Up Artist2019Weightlessness2017Los Angeles TehranSara And AydaHouse of Paper2015It Happened At MidnightYahya Didn't Keep Quiet2014Metropole2013Khanoom2005Me And Debora
Home video YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressMake Up Artist2021Once Upon a Time in Iran2025Tasian
Short film YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressMake Up Artist2010This Was My City2009Knot2007Actor Actor2000Dream?Miracle
Television film YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressMake Up Artist2012The B Story2011Paradise Traveler2011Bridge
Television series YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressMake Up Artist2009–2010The Years of The Constitution
Notes and references
External links
Soureh Cinema profile