Joanna Vymeris

Joanna is a director and producer from London currently based in LA and is awarded the BAFTA Pigott scholarship to attend the AFI as a directing fellow. After graduating with a 1st class degree in Art History from Cambridge University she founded her circus company the Feathers of Daedalus, directing contemporary circus shows based on surrealist stories for five years in the UK and Brazil.

In 2021 she re-trained in film producing at the NFTS. She then worked at Adventure Pictures with Sally Potter as junior producer and director’s assisting, pitching films at Cannes and Berlinale, and working on a range of feature films, short form work and music. In this time, she also directed various short films, including Mother Goose which won the 2024 For the Silver Screen analogue film award and the Thelma Schoonmaker prize for short filmmaking excellence at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025. It will screen at the 69th London Film Festival in October. She was selected for the 2024 Kyoto Filmmakers Lab where she directed The Assassin’s Flower a Jidaigeki film in Japanese on the Toei Studios open set.

She continues to develop her slate as a producer and founded Ofelia Pictures through which she is co-producing Bland by Hugh Clegg which is supported by BBC Film and the NFTS Bridges to Industry scheme, Trigger Hunt directed by BAFTA winner Colin O’Toole, and Bone by Georgie Henley. While at AFI she wants to refine her directing craft, take risks formally and narratively with genre work, and continue to develop her feature scripts. In her free time Joanna likes to paint and occasionally perform as an acrobat.

https://www.joannavymeris.co.uk/