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I Am Nasrine

Gharavi wrote the screenplay for this feature film as well as directing it. The film was produced to a high professional standard and gained a national release, a best screenplay award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and a BAFTA nomination. It is inventive in its form, combining documentary and fiction, and using real people as well as actors. It was made over a period of twelve years. Much of this work was with the communities depicted in the film, in both the UK and Iran. Research for the film required trips to Iran as well as collaboration with international agencies including Amnesty, Freedom from Torture and the Refugee Council.

Gharavi both wrote and directed this feature film. Her work was based on over 2000 hours of engagement work with asylum and refugee communities, beginning in 2001. Pre-production work began in 2007 and the film was released in early 2012. Production included extensive scoping work, a pre-production period of six months, then filming (30 days set-up and 25 of filming in the UK; 9 days of set-up and 9 of filming in Iran), followed by 9 months’ full-time post-production. The process included collaboration with agencies such as Amnesty, Freedom from Torture, and the Refugee Council.