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Joana Nin
- Location:
- Brazil
- Languages:
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Technology & Data, Labor issues, Women and Girls, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Alternative Distribution
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- woman
Bio
Joana Nin is a Brazilian filmmaker who has been dedicated to personalized projects with socially relevant themes. Her first feature documentary film Captive Hearts debuted at Rio Int’ Film Festival and received special mentions from the jury and was selected for the Stockholm Film Festival in 2014. The second one, Childbirth Banned in Paradise, was released in 2021, with international debut in One World, Czech Republic. This film received an award to fund a social impact campaign in the interior of Brazil in 2022. She has already made six other authorial projects, including the short film The Visit (2005), participated in over 40 festivals, and received 21 awards, amongst them best documentary in It’s All True Festival 2006. She holds a master's degree in Communication from PUC-Rio, with research on documentaries of social impact; A journalist by training, he worked as a reporter for ten years before migrating to cinema, a market in which he has been active for almost two decades.
