Joana Pimenta
- Known for
- Directing
Biography
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.
Movies with Joana Pimenta
- Somniloquies 2017 · ★ 7.6
Movies directed by Joana Pimenta
- Dry Ground Burning 2023 · ★ 6.3
- An Aviation Field 2016 · ★ 7.5
- The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees 2014 · ★ 10.0
- Dreaming In The Dark 2018
- A Quebra do Cego 2024