About

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Joana Pimenta

Overview

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

Acting
2017 Somniloquies Actor Sleeper 59
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Directing
2024 A Quebra do Cego Directing Director N/A
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2023 Dry Ground Burning Directing Director 58
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2018 Dreaming In The Dark Directing Director N/A
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2016 An Aviation Field Directing Director 59
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2014 The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees Directing Director 59
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Writing
2023 Dry Ground Burning Writing Writer 58
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2016 An Aviation Field Writing Writer 59
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Camera
2023 Dry Ground Burning Camera Director of Photography 58
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2017 Once There Was Brasília Camera Director of Photography 58
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Crew
2016 An Aviation Field Crew Cinematography 59
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Editing
2016 An Aviation Field Editing Editor 59
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