Tina Love

write/director/producer at Tina Love Digital Productions
Director, Editor and Screenwriter

Santa Barbara, California

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November 2015

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About Tina

Tina Love lives in Santa Barbara where she co-produces 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, 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 a list of log lines, several spec screenplays, and 2 limited series TV drama pitch packages (one with a pilot script and one with a short form documentary introducing the cast of characters and the dramatic content). Whether a humble pastor's wife or a renowned mathematician/astronomer Tina's protagonist's push against the forces around them that limit their creative freedom. Alongside filmmaking, for the past 18 years, Tina has been a flamenco dancer, teacher and promoter of the art of flamenco as a show producer. Her screenplay "The Red Shoes," marries her two vying loves of flamenco and film and has garnered awards in screenwriting competitions over the years. 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 over, 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 she 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 (24) and Natalie (23). (Bio written Jan 2022)

Unique traits: I'm a flamenco dancer too!

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 5"

Weight:
125

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Black

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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The Red Shoes Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama When the dependent wife of a soul-sucking narcissist pastor rediscovers her flamenco shoes, she secretly trains with her former gypsy mentor for a dream role that empowers her to liberate her family from the monster

Credits

The Romancing & Reaping of Riven Rock (2018)
Documentary by Tina Love Digital Productions writer/director In 1929, JUDGE DEHY is on his way to Riven Rock estate in Montecito to meet the "millionaire mental incompetent" STANLEY MCCORMICK, before making his final ruling in a high profile case The New York Times declares "The Largest Custody Case in the History of the Courts."
Duende:The Red Shoes (2015)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Drama) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer A pastor's wife plays with fire when she resurrects her career as as professional flamenco dancer.
Bringing Back the Wild: Coal Oil Point Reserve (2015)
Film by Michael Love (Documentary and Adventure) Editor, Producer, Visual effects, Sound department SANTA BARBARA IS GRACED WITH AN OASIS OF NATIVE WILDERNESS SURROUNDED BY URBAN AREAS. THIS IS THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE RESTORATION AND NATURAL HISTORY OF COAL OIL POINT RESERVE, A NATIVE WETLANDS AND PRECIOUS COASTAL-STRAND ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS HOME TO THE THREATENED WESTERN SNOWY PLOVER AND TIDEWATER GOBY. AFTER A DECADE OF CARE BY UCSB RESERVE DIRECTOR CRISTINA SANDOVAL, THE SNOWY PLOVER IS BREEDING AGAIN AND THE PROTECTED AND YET ACCESSIBLE RESERVE HAS ATTRACTED MYRIAD BIRDS AND BIRDERS, RESEARCHERS AND NATURE ENTHUSIASTS. IN CONTRAST TO ONGOING TRAGEDIES OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, THIS FILM REVEALS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEHIND THIS SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION PROJECT AND HOW THEY HAVE INVITED THE PUBLIC TO BOTH RESPECT AND ENJOY IT.
The Red Shoes (2014)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Drama and Music) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Visual effects, Sound department, Cinematographer The submissive wife of a Lutheran minister longs to dance flamenco again. Emboldened by a pair of magic red flamenco shoes she found at the thrift store, her dreams of dancing gradually materialize during a church confirmation ceremony.
Basilio's Flamenco Wonderland (2014)
Film (short) by Tina Love Editor, Director An inside glimpse of the annual Fin de Verano flamenco bacchanalia held on a flamenco aficionado's private property in San Diego - a space the host describes as "a loving embrace for all flamenco lovers."
Don Nicolás Den, Irish Pioneer to Santa Barbara (2014)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Documentary, Biography and History) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Visual effects, Sound department, Cinematographer, Costume and Wardrobe Department, Self Based on Walker Tompkins book 'Santa Barbara's Royal Rancho,' this documentary tells the story of Irish immigrant Nicholas Den and his beloved Dos Pueblos Ranch. Den came to Santa Barbara in 1836 when the population of the Mexican adobe town was a mere 900. He quickly learned Spanish and immersed himself in the culture of the Spanish Dons, changing his name to Nicolas. Over the next twenty-five years he was to have lasting impact on Santa Barbara history, including saving the Santa Barbara Mission from secularization. Narrated by prominent local historians, and filmed at historic locations, this film offers a rare view into the early days of Santa Barbara,
The Santa Ynez River Wilderness (2013)
Film by Michael Love (Documentary and History) Editor Four years in the making, The Santa Ynez River Wilderness is a visually beautiful and educational documentary about the upper Santa Ynez river. The hour long film features wildlife, birds, seasons, wildflowers and includes sections on biology, anthropology and geology. Written by Anonymous
Last Man in Paradise (2011)
Film by Tina Love (Documentary, Drama and History) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Visual effects, Camera and Electrical Department An eccentric champion of the history of humble things faces bulldozers as he fights for his unique cabin.
Destroying Angel (2011)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Drama) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Visual effects, Sound department, Camera and Electrical Department, Animation department, Editorial department After a tragic event that could have been avoided, Lucy lives with a regret that clouds her days making life unbearable for herself and family. Hoping to find a renewed sense of meaning, she goes on a mushroom foray in the wilderness. But rather than finding a reason to live, she plays Russian roulette with mushrooms that resemble destroying angels (a type of deadly Amanita). There she befriends Paul, a graduate mycology student with optimistic dreams on the scientific applications of fungi to heal our planet. He unwittingly finds himself in the middle of her painful journey and in a race against time upon putting the pieces together. Meanwhile, floating between life and death Lucy still has choices. Written by Tina Love
Hold It Like a Baby (2009)
Film by Tina Love (Comedy) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Production manager 'Hold your anger like a baby' advises bipolar psychologist Wilbur Waskowicks. He has just finished his first book, 'Anger Vanquished,' and hired exuberant temp Francesca to proofread. She has a thing for messy situations: she married her poetry professor Fernando who was fired as a result. Francesca and Wilbur grow intimate, and when his book is published, abscond to Lake Tahoe for his book launching. Their affair is a brief dysfunctional glimpse of heaven that collides with reality when Wilbur gets the book's dismal reviews. Two other couple's stories intertwine: Joe a screenwriter with three ex-wives, four kids assorted between them, and Stacey, newly pregnant and hoping Joe will get her screenplay to his agent. And then there's Angie and Angelo: her a petite, foul-mouthed waitress aspiring to be a vet, and him a overly-sensitive boxer who has finally gotten that title fight in Vegas - but not without the juice. Wilbur, finding himself separately offended by both Joe and Angelo, ... Written by Michael Love
The River (2008)
Film (short) by Cristina Quintana (Drama) Editor, Writer, Visual effects, Sound department, Camera and Electrical Department, Art director A dreamlike film inspired by a famous John Waterhouse painting of a red haired woman floating in a river, though dead she appears somewhat angelic. In this film the the young woman found in the river is the mother of two small children, who battled with an overbearing ex-husband who used the children to punish her for leaving him. Written by Anonymous
Much Ado About W: Art Wars of Santa Barbara (2007)
Film by Tina Love (Documentary) Editor, Director, Writer Enraged by the policies of George W. Bush, two prominent artists, Colin Gray and John Nava, are compelled to take a political stand in their art for the first time, one in a public sculpture exhibit on State Street, and the other in a local gallery. The documentary follows the threats, tabloid journalism, and controversy that ensue as the layers of Santa Barbara's culture, media and politics unravel through the perspectives of an eloquent panel of commentators from the professional art world and people interviewed on the streets of Santa Barbara. Written by Michael Love
Autumn Leaves (2006)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Drama) Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematographer A divorced couple, Foster and Suzie, and their college age sons, John and Tommy, are purging the amassed remnants in the attic of their once family home, which is up for sale. As they toss objects from the small attic balcony into the pickup truck below, emotions are stirred. Suzie is purge-happy while Foster, clings pathetically to the memories of a once happy family life. When Foster discovers the "Wedding Day" video he asks all, "What shall I do with this?" Distraught son Tommy settles the matter, "What's the point of keeping it" and he tosses it into the pickup truck below. Suzie's new fiancé, Ted, arrives with a 6-pack of beer, to encounter the debris that missed the truck bed. Fully immersed in his I-pod shuffle, he picks up the fall out, tossing items into the truck bed, oblivious to the drama playing out on the attic balcony above him between his new love and her ex. BREAK TIME! Suzie escapes. Ted's arrival is perfect timing as Foster's behavior is becoming unbearable to her. ... Written by Tina Love
A Tale of Tails (2006)
Film (short) by Tina Love (Documentary and Family) Director, Producer, Cinematographer A red Tabby cat must come to terms with sharing his space with the tantalizing rats who have moved it.