Tina Love

Tina Love lives in Santa Barbara where she co-produces movie projects as a writer/director and editor with local clients. She has also been an editor for other filmmakers, such as humanitarian filmmaker Emmanuel Itier and her ex-husband, wildlife filmmaker Michael Love. Her films have screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, the Ojai Film Festival, the Ventura Film Festival, Lady Filmmakers Film Festival (Beverly Hills), Artemis Women in Action Film Festival (LA), Bare Bones Film Festival (Muskogee), Big River Film Fest (Savannah), Park City Film Music Festival, Albuquerque Film & Music Experience. Two of her short film projects were licensed to ShortsTV. Tina has several spec screenplays and 2 serialized TV drama pitch packages (one with a pilot script and season/episode outline, the other a short form documentary introducing the cast of characters and the dramatic content). Alongside filmmaking, for the past 18 years, Tina has been a flamenco dancer, as well as a promoter of the art of flamenco as a show producer (in 2018- 2019 her flamenco tablao events being at the Four Seasons Biltmore, Ty Lounge Santa Barbara). Her screenplay "The Red Shoes," a project that marries her two vying loves of flamenco and film, has garnered awards in several screenwriting competitions over the years. It's latest honor: being selected for the script development program sponsored by the 17th Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario Nov. 2019). Early years: Tina's mother Stella Brunet, a native Brooklynite, and her father Pierre Quintana, an immigrant from France, had met in Madrid. Tina was born Cristina Quintana in Brooklyn, New York. Registered by her father at the French consulate upon birth, she has dual US and French citizenship. Her family moved to Queens, then settled in Wilton, Connecticut for 18 years. As a child, she enjoyed presenting ad-lib productions with her sister and friends, and setting up displays of her artwork with price-tags to sell to the many visitors that came to the home, and her parents of course. She was an avid gymnast on the high school team. At the University of Connecticut in Stamford, she explored new directions such as photography, psychology, theater production, Shakespeare studies and dance. She created a cultural club that sponsored classic movie screenings and trips to NYC to attend theater shows, the ballet, and the opera. After receiving a BA in English Literature, she worked in Austria 1.5 years as an ESL teacher. She later moved to Santa Barbara CA where she worked in casting and also worked as an extra in LA while writing her first spec scripts. In 2001 took up flamenco dance and simultaneously attended Brooks Institute's film school in Ventura. She has two children for which she feels immense gratitude for: Peter (21) and Natalie (18). (Bio written Oct. 2019)