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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.

Most Famous Work

Dry Ground Burning
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7

Dry Ground Burning

(2023) Writer
Once There Was Brasília
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6

Once There Was Brasília

(2017) Director of Photography
An Aviation Field
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8

An Aviation Field

(2016) Writer
The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees
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10
Dreaming In The Dark
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Dreaming In The Dark

(2018) Director

Acting

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2017 Sleeper
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Camera

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2023 Director of Photography
2017 Director of Photography
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Directing

Writing

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2023 Writer
2016 Writer
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Crew

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2016 Cinematography
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Editing

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2016 Editor
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