CV:  Joanna Woodward
For personal contact details please email: jo(at)wonder95.freeserve.co.uk

FURTHER EDUCATION:  

1990- National Film And Television School, her graduation film won the grand prix at the Zagreb film festival, the Time Out New Directions, best Newcomer Cardiff award, amongst others.

FILM WORK & BURSARIES: -

Currently: Joanna is developing a feature film script to be directed by her -- a surreal Tragic-comic fairytale

2004: Two Children Threatened By A Nightingale; based on a surrealist painting by Max Ernast and is showing Festival de cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid

2004: 5 mins film Walking; created using After Effects to transport ordinary people on the street into a metaphoric walk through life, made with assistance from one year artist's residency at Lewisham College.

2004: 5 Men, a video installation was shown in an international exhibition 'The Art Of Love,'

2003-2004: Joanna was 'artist in residence' at Lewisham College, South London.

2003: Sally Down The Plughole; a short film was screened at the ICA in the Halloween Film Festival and shown at the Orleans House Gallery in an exhibition called 'Digital Painters Of Modern Life.' Started a theatre company using improvisational techniques thrown up by digital technology.

2000-2001: Directing and performing with a theatre company "Persistent Pussies", developing work through improvisation.

1998-2000:  Received an artists bursary to live and work in The Fire Station Tower Hamlets, other artists included Martin Creed Perminer Kaur and Lindsay Seers (see July 2004 A-N Magazine).  During this time created five three-dimensional installations that explore the effects of interaction with an environment and the change that this makes on the perception of time. My video work, was chosen as one of the international artists to represent ‘Michelin 2000’ in an exhibition launched in Paris.

1997: Wrote and directed a short film ‘The Cat’; commissioned by Carlton Television for their ‘Showcase for new work by artist filmmakers’, also created a short film about a pair of melting high heels for the opening of the new Lux Cinema.

1995-1996: Received a development awards for her feature film script writing from both The London Production Fund and another one from The British Film Institute.

1996: Channel 4 Television commissioned Joanna to write and direct’ Sawdust For Brains And The Key Of Wisdom,' 16mm, excerpts of the film were also shown on the television program moving pictures. Awarded the Fedro Garcia Lorca film award at the Lorca Film Festival which is awarded as a tribute to the poet. Joanna was interviewed on the British television program Moving Pictures in connection with this film to discuss the use of 'trick photography' in the process of filmmaking.  Both films were shown internationally and in two special cinema programmes called ‘A Showcase For The Avant-garde' and 'Grotesque Imaginings' at the National Film Theatre as well as on C4.

1992-1993: Collaboration with the I.O.U. Theatre Company; we devised and created a piece called ‘The Weatherhouse’ 16mm. This toured Britain and appeared in London at the ICA, The Weatherhouse was shown on television.  During this rime Joanna also had a show at the City Gallery in Leicester, which incorporated her video work as well as the models and props.

1990: The Brooch Pin And The Sinful Clasp; 35mm,’ written and directed by Joanna and starring Rose English as a giant that lives at the top of a tower block. This won several awards including, the Grand Prix at Zagreb film festival, The Time Out Film Award, The Observer Award and The Directions Award, this film also toured part of an Arts Council program called ‘Between Imagination and Reality’.