Joana was born in 1989 in Porto (Portugal), where she lives.
She has also lived in Lisbon (Portugal), and Bologna and Palermo (Italy).
Lately she has been working as a freelancer mainly in video editing, but also directing short videos, photography and design (always in DIY mode), highlighting the work with the Lisbon based film production company Take It Easy and with the Cruzes Canhoto gallery in Porto.
She has worked on small films – fiction, documentary and animation – filming, editing or assisting the director; she has also worked on a small bookstore dedicated to poetry and theatre; and sometimes she writes and edits a couple of texts.