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Atinuke "Tinu" Diver
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Racial Injustice, Economic Injustice, Voting Rights, Women and Girls, Aging, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Impact Strategist/Advisor
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Black, African-American, Yoruba, Southerner, 1st Generation American
- Self identification:
- Female, Woman
Bio
Atinuke “Tinu” Diver is an award-winning documentarian and impact producer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her debut documentary short QUILT JOURNEYS premiered at the 2019 Blackstar Film Festival (Alice Fest, Carrboro Film Festival, Hayti Heritage Film Festival, River Run Film Festival, Longleaf Film Festival and BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival). Other documentary projects include, MASTERPIECE; 98 (2020 Carrboro Film Festival) and ‘A BLACK WOMAN MADE THIS BEER’ which received Best National/International Reporting from The North American Guild of Beer Writers in 2022. Her current project, THIS BELONGS TO US, was selected for the Working Films Works-in-Progress Lab, 2021 Sundance Film Festival Carolina Works-In-Progress, and has received funding from the Southern Documentary Fund, Filmed in NC Fund and the Brewers’ Association. Tinu earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, and a Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
