Joana Pimenta
Directing
JOANA PIMENTA is a filmmaker from Lisbon, Portugal, currently living and working between the United States and Brazil. Her short film The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees received the Competition Award at Indielisboa ’14, where it premiered, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Jihlava, Mar del Plata, Ambulante, Edinburgh, Videoex, Taipei, among other venues. Her video installation work has been recently presented at the Festival Temps d'Images, the Fundacion Botin, Galeria da Boavista, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and The Pipe Factory, among others. She works and teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and in the BFA program in Film at Rutgers University, and is a fellow at the Film Study Center and the Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2024A Quebra do Cego Director
- 2023Dry Ground Burning Writer, Director, Director of Photography
- 2018Dreaming In The Dark Director
- 2017Once There Was Brasília Director of Photography
- 2016An Aviation Field Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
- 2014The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees Director
Acting1
- 2017Somniloquies as Sleeper