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Tina Love

Editor, Writer, Director, Producer

• About Me

  Writer/Director/Producer TINA LOVE is an award-winning filmmaker whose passion for dance began in the mid 1980s when she studied ballet and modern dance at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. Tina attended Brooks Institute's film-school in Ventura, California from 2002-2004. In 2001 she began taking flamenco in Santa Barbara. Tina has written and directed films that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and screened at other festivals garnering awards. Most recently, her feature film script “The Red Shoes” was an Official Finalist of the New York Screenplay Contest (Sept. 2016) and ZED Fest, and an earlier draft in the top 10% of Academy Nicholl submissions (2016), just missing the Quarterfinalists. (She resubmitted this year.) Her short film “Duende: The Red Shoes,” an adapted scene from her feature script, was in several film festivals. It won Best Dance Film at Ladyfilmmakers Film Festival in Beverly Hills (September 2016). The festival directors stated “Duende” stood out from other dance movie submissions for its successful integration of dance and story. Tina hopes to direct the feature. “Duende” will premiere on TV on Shorts HD this summer, along with another of her shorts “Destroying Angel.” Tina has other spec feature screenplays (including the pilot "Hailstorm" for a dramatic series project about Galileo) . Tina is a seasoned film editor of five feature length films and many short films and bio portraits. All the while, she continues to nurture her flamenco dance training and knowledge and performs in Santa Barbara and LA.   In 2016 Tina started a documentary about Inesita, a women she has performed the last 6 years with in LA:  “Flamenco: The Enduring Art of Inesita.”     

  
  

  Interests

  Narrative Drama, Documentary Films