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Producer
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 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.
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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.
Known for
The Edge of Democracy2019
Virunga2014
The White Helmets2016
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó2024
Evelyn2019
POV1988
The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable2026
We Dare to Dream2023
Filmography
- 2026The Disciple: A Wu-Tang FableFilmDirector, Producer
- 2026YanuniFilmExecutive Producer
- 2026Maybe TomorrowFilmProducer
- 2025Snow Leopard SistersFilmProducer
- 2025The Dating GameFilmProducer
- 2024Nǎi Nai & Wài PóFilmExecutive Producer
- 2023We Dare to DreamFilmProducer
- 2021Tigre GenteFilmProducer
- 2021Sophie and the BaronFilmExecutive Producer
- 2019The Edge of DemocracyFilmProducer
- 2019EvelynFilmProducer
- 2016The White HelmetsFilmProducer
- 2014VirungaFilmProducer
- 2012The Price of Kings: Shimon PeresFilmDirector
- 2012The Price of Kings: Yasser ArafatFilmDirector
- 1988POVSeriesProducer