Joana Pimenta

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.

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  Once There Was Brasília

  Director of Photography

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  An Aviation Field

  Director

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  Dry Ground Burning

  Writer

• The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees

  Director

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  Somniloquies

  Sleeper

• A Quebra do Cego

  Director

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  Dreaming In The Dark

  Director

• 2024A Quebra do CegoDirector
• 2023Dry Ground BurningWriter
• 2018Dreaming In The DarkDirector
• 2017Once There Was BrasíliaDirector of Photography
• 2017SomniloquiesSleeper
• 2016An Aviation FieldDirector
• 2014The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana TreesDirector