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Date of Birth

9 February 1978, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Birth Name

Patina Mabry

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Mini Biography

Tina has always maintained a strong sense of self and an immovable determination. Growing up in the small town of Tupelo, Mississippi, Tina relied on the films her mother introduced to her and her writing to take her to new places. While attending the University of Mississippi with the plans of using her degrees in Psychology and Political Science to help further her dreams of becoming an attorney, Tina started a new novel, Seven Days, and after three years she finally completed it. Upon watching the films Boy's Don't Cry and Love and Basketball, Tina realized that she could no longer deny her passion for film. It was then that Tina became determined to leave Mississippi and move to Los Angeles. One month after moving to Los Angeles, Tina received her acceptance letter to the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. During her three years at USC, Tina developed into an innovative director and an even more skilled writer. She completed her thesis film, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, of which the script received the Jeffrey Jones Writing Award at USC in the Fall of 2004 and the film has been accepted into twelve film festivals. In addition to this and to receiving the Edward Small Directing Award, a thesis film she co-produced at USC, The Slowdown, aired on Showtime's Black Filmmaker Showcase in February 2004. Tina is currently co-writing a feature screenplay for But I'm a Cheerleader's director, Jamie Babbit. Her short film, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, will air on Showtime in February 2006.

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