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Joana Pimenta

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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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Cinematography:
2016  An Aviation Field

Director:
2014  The Figures Carved into the Knife By the Sap of the Banana Trees
2016  An Aviation Field
2018  Dreaming In The Dark
2023  Dry Ground Burning
2024  A Quebra do Cego

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

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

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

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