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Joanna Natasegara
Joanna Natasegara is an English film producer and director, and the Academy Award-winning founder of Violet Films, a London-based production company known for finding the politica…
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Joanna Natasegara is an English film producer and director, and the Academy Award-winning founder of Violet Films, a London-based production company known for finding the political in the personal. She won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short for The White Helmets (2016) and received a further Academy Award nomination, for Best Documentary Feature, for Virunga (2014), both directed by Orlando von Einsiedel; her other producing credits include the Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy, the Netflix docuseries Heart of Invictus, and Disney's Oscar-nominated short Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó. Her work has earned two Peabody Awards and over 100 award nominations in total. She made her directorial debut with The Disciple, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Filmography
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2026
Yanuni
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable
Movie Director
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2025
The Dating Game
Movie Producer
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2025
Snow Leopard Sisters
Movie Producer
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2024
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
We Dare to Dream
Movie Producer
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2021
Tigre Gente
Movie Producer
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2021
Sophie and the Baron
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Evelyn
Movie Producer
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2019
The Edge of Democracy
Movie Producer
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2016
The White Helmets
Movie Producer
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2014
Virunga
Movie Producer
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2012
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Movie Director
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2012
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Movie Director
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1988
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TV show Producer
