
Directing
Joanna Joy
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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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NREveryone 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
NRLike 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
NRIn a world where imagination meets reality, Sam, a neurodivergent student is excluded from the school play but dares to dream bigger.
Outcast
2024
NRA 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
5.0May 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
Behind the camera
NREveryone 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
NREveryone 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
NRLike 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
NRLike 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
NRIn a world where imagination meets reality, Sam, a neurodivergent student is excluded from the school play but dares to dream bigger.
Outcast
2024
NRIn a world where imagination meets reality, Sam, a neurodivergent student is excluded from the school play but dares to dream bigger.
Outcast
2024
NRA 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
NRA 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
5.0May 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
5.0May 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
