Tinge Krishnan

Writer/Director/Producer

Tinge graduated a Bachelor in Medicine in 1993 and worked as a hospital doctor until 1994, when she left to take the NYU postgraduate in film, graduating in 1996. 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 Film Festival. Her first film, GROOVE ON A STANLEY KNIFE (40 mins), was part funded by YMPA, won several awards and international critical acclaim, and was sold to Channel 4 in 1996. SHADOWSCAN, made under the BFI/FilmFour 'New Directors' scheme, won a BAFTA for Best Short Film in 2001.

Tinge's company, Disruptive Element Films, was set up in 1995 and produced GROOVE ON A STANLEY KNIFE, THE SHOWROOM CINEMA IDENT and SHADOWSCAN.

She participated in the 2002 First Film Foundation showcase in London, New York and LA, and is currently in active development on LITTLE SISTERS with WT2, as co-writer and director.

In Dec 2004 she was a survivor/volounteer of the tsunami in phuket and was on the management team that set up the International Victim Co-ordination centre.She was part of a liason team that provided co-ordination between hospitals and mortuaries. She has recently set up tsunamitree.com a website that will provide tracking and resource monitoring, needs matching databases and other features for the tsunami affected regions. It plans to provide IT models for future
emergencies.

In Aug 2005 she directed a play she had written, Backpacker Orpheus at the Sound Theatre in the west end of london. The story of a Orpheus set in the asian tsunami sees a young backpacker journeys into the world of the dead in search of his wife.