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Dina Haeri (previously Jacobsen) is a producer, screenwriter, director. [1] | | She was born in Iraq and grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She started her career as a researcher on BBC and appeared as an actor on BBC's Casualty . [2] She wrote, directed, and starred in the feature Coma Girl: The State of Grace (2005) which won Best Film at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California. [3] She is currently producing a ground-breaking project about wildlife crime [4]

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  1. https://humdiddlee.co.uk
  2. "Dina Haeri". IMDb .
  3. http://www.cinequest.org/mobile/detail_dvds.php?m=662 Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Coma Girl: The State of Grace at the Cinequest.org
  4. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28061464/?ref_=nm_dev_3