Joana Vicente

Joana Vicente is an American film producer and executive.

Vicente was the CEO of the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival. Before joining the Institute, she spent three years as Executive Director and Co-Head of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the TIFF organization.

Vicente spent nearly a decade as the Executive Director of the not-for-profit Independent Filmmaker Project (now the Gotham Film & Media Institute). At IFP, she founded the Made in NY Media Center, a partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The Made in NY Media Center by IFP was an incubator for start-ups at the intersection of storytelling and technology.

She is a recipient of the Made in New York Award©, which she received from Mayor Mike Bloomberg for her contributions to the growth of NYC’s media and entertainment industries. Vicente was an adjunct professor at NYU Stern Business School, where she taught The Business of Film. She is also a Film Slate Advisor for the NYU Production Lab. Provided by Wikipedia