Joanna Joy

Directing

Joanna Joy

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Joanna Joy is a writer, director, and producer with a passion for interdisciplinary and intersectional storytelling. In 2025, she completed an artistic residency at the Rockhampton Museum of Art, focusing on the development of narrative cinematic content grounded in regional multicultural history. Prior to this, Joanna was selected for the 2023 Accelerator Lab at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Untapped Program with Australians in Film. Joanna is deeply committed to intersectional storytelling, forming long-term collaborations with organisations like Darumbal People Aboriginal Corporation and educational not-for-profits such as Bus Stop Films, which champions accessible f…

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Behind the camera

Fighting Feelings poster
NR

Everyone loves Babyface and everyone loves to hate the Heel. However, feelings are not so clear inside the wrestling ring. As the final showdown unfolds our two favourite personas must grapple with their feelings in an attempt to rewrite their own storyline.

Fighting Feelings

2023

Fighting Feelings poster
NR

Everyone loves Babyface and everyone loves to hate the Heel. However, feelings are not so clear inside the wrestling ring. As the final showdown unfolds our two favourite personas must grapple with their feelings in an attempt to rewrite their own storyline.

Fighting Feelings

2023

Band(She) poster
NR

Like most teenagers, Banshee and Werewolf feel pretty misunderstood—however, unlike most teenagers they have fantastical powers, which aid them in their fight to be heard.

Band(She)

2022

Band(She) poster
NR

Like most teenagers, Banshee and Werewolf feel pretty misunderstood—however, unlike most teenagers they have fantastical powers, which aid them in their fight to be heard.

Band(She)

2022

Outcast poster
NR

In a world where imagination meets reality, Sam, a neurodivergent student is excluded from the school play but dares to dream bigger.

Outcast

2024

Outcast poster
NR

In a world where imagination meets reality, Sam, a neurodivergent student is excluded from the school play but dares to dream bigger.

Outcast

2024

Oil & Water poster
NR

A haunting underwater fable set against a world ravaged by pollution and war. When a young, deaf Sailor ventures into the ocean in search of a mythical Siren, their brief and bittersweet encounter ends in betrayal.

Oil & Water

2024

Oil & Water poster
NR

A haunting underwater fable set against a world ravaged by pollution and war. When a young, deaf Sailor ventures into the ocean in search of a mythical Siren, their brief and bittersweet encounter ends in betrayal.

Oil & Water

2024

Generations of Men poster
5.0

May Downs, 1859. A white family making an overland journey to Rockhampton, with the assistance of Aboriginal staff, is stalled when the mother goes into labour. This loose adaptation of Wright’s eponymous historical account focuses on the female experience of colonisation, revealing the human costs of masculine avarice.

Generations of Men

2023

Generations of Men poster
5.0

May Downs, 1859. A white family making an overland journey to Rockhampton, with the assistance of Aboriginal staff, is stalled when the mother goes into labour. This loose adaptation of Wright’s eponymous historical account focuses on the female experience of colonisation, revealing the human costs of masculine avarice.

Generations of Men

2023