Tinge Krishnan

Writer/Director/Producer

Tinge graduated with a Bachelor in Medicine in 1993 and practiced as a hospital doctor until 1996 when she left to take a post graduate degree in film at NYU.   She set up her own company Disruptive Element Films in 1995 and her first film Groove On A Stanley Knife garnered international critical acclaim, won several awards including the Silver Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, ‘Best European Film’ at Cineffable Film Festival and the  ‘Immaginaria’ award at the Bologna Film Festival in 1998.  It was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, London Lesbian and Gay Festival, Austin, Uppsala and over 30 other festivals worldwide.  The film was sold to Channel 4 and broadcast in 1997 and 1998.  In 1999 she was selected as one of four directors to write and direct a three minute piece; Random Nights, shot in a day, to celebrate the launch of the FilmFour lab at the 1999 Edinburgh festival. 

She then wrote and directed Shadowscan which won a BAFTA for best short film in 2001 and best UK short at Raindance film festival.  It was in competition at Edinburgh Film Festival and was screened at over 50 international festivals including Sundance and Berlin.   Tinge is a survivor/volunteer of the tsunami in Phuket and was an active part of the management team that set up the International Victim Co-ordination centre.  Her experiences inspired her to return to Thailand to shoot the feature film Honey and Razorblades, currently in post-production. 

From 2001 – 2005 Tinge was commissioned to write feature films for Working Title, Film Four, The Film Council and Little Bird (Jonathan Cavendish.)  2005 saw her write and direct the stage play Backpacker Orpheus and in 2007 she was selected to direct The Circle; a drama for Channel 4 and IWC’s ‘Coming up’ talent scheme and made her first MTV aired music video for the band Bib.  Then followed It Comes and It Goes for Dido’s Safe Trip Home; a Mike Mills style documentary music video about a Thai lady boy boxer, a video for Emmanuel Jal’s War Child and another for the band Opera House.  In 2008 her short film First was screened at various festivals including competition in Berlin and Edinburgh and won the Audi Channel Reel Talent Award.  She is currently in pre-production on her first feature film Junkhearts starring Timothy Spall and has recently directed the trans media martial arts drama series Dimensions which will be launched in Asia at the end of November with a large above the line campaign by Ogilvy and Mind Share.  There will also be a social networking and viral mobile push starting late October.  In terms of its transmedia architecture and filmic aesthetic this project will be the first of its kind in the world.

Tinge is currently represented in the UK by Casarotto & Ramsey