Joana Pimenta

Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker, Assistant Professor in Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Her latest film, Dry Ground Burning, co-directed with Adirley Queirós, probes the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, and it was shot in Sol Nascente, in the periphery of Brasília, Brazil. Dry Ground Burning premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, screened at the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, among many others, where it received more than 30 awards, followed by theatrical releases in the United States, France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, among other countries.