Joanna is a director, writer and producer for screen and stage from London, currently based in LA.  She has an MA in film producing from the NFTS where she was a screen skill scholar. She then worked with Sally Potter as junior producer pitching films at Cannes and Berlinale, and working on a range of feature films, short form work and music. She has directed various award winning short films, including MOTHER GOOSE which won the 2024 For the Silver Screen analogue film award and the Thelma Schoonmaker prize for short filmmaking excellence at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025, and will screen at the 69th London Film Festival in October. She was selected for the 2024 Kyoto Filmmakers Lab where she directed THE ASSASSIN’S FLOWER a Jidaigeki film in Japanese on the Toei Studios open set. Joanna has various long form projects in development including her TV series THE CIRCUS DIARIES with Escape Plan (SAINT MAUD) and feature film THE POISON THAT FASCINATES which is an adaptation of the novel by Jennifer Clement (WIDOW BASQUIAT, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN).  Joanna is a directing fellow at the American Film Institute where she is a BAFTA Pigott scholar. In her own work Joanna has a passion for genre with a social message, be that horror, musical or comedy. 

Joanna continues to develop her slate as a producer and founded Ofelia Pictures through which she is co-producing BLAND by Hugh Clegg supported by BBC Film and the NFTS as the selected Bridges to Industry project 2024, TRIGGER HUNT directed by BAFTA winner Colin O’Toole, and BONE by Georgie Henley (the chronicles of Narnia franchise). In a past life before moving into film Joanna was a circus performer and ran a circus company The Feathers of Daedalus Circus through which she produced and directed circus productions in the UK and Brazil. She has a 1st class BA in History of Art from Cambridge University and has exhibited paintings around the world.