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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...

Best known work

Once There Was Brasília
Once There Was Brasília
2017
Dry Ground Burning
Dry Ground Burning
2023
Somniloquies
Somniloquies
2017
An Aviation Field
An Aviation Field
2016
The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees
The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees
2014
Dreaming In The Dark
Dreaming In The Dark
2018
A Quebra do Cego
A Quebra do Cego
2024
Elza
Elza
2026

Filmography

  1. 2026

    Elza

    Cinematography

  2. 2024

  3. 2023

    Dry Ground Burning

    Writer, Director, Director of Photography

  4. 2018

  5. 2017

    Once There Was Brasília

    Director of Photography

  6. 2017

    Somniloquies

    as Sleeper

  7. 2016

    An Aviation Field

    Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography

  8. 2014

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