Joana Pimenta

Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker from Portugal. Her latest film, An Aviation Field, premiered in competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival, and was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, CPH:Dox, Rencontres Internationales, Oberhausen, Valdivia, Mar del Plata, Edinburgh, among others, and received the Jury Award for Best Film in Competition at Zinebi ’58. Joana has a PhD in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, where she currently teaches filmmaking and is Interim Director of the Film Study Center and a filmmaker associated with the Sensory Ethnography Lab.