To fully appreciate the extent of the esteem in which Joanna and her work is held worldwide, one must travel with her to one of the many Film Festivals which she attends all over the world. She really is regarded as one of the most celebrated and leading figures in World Animation.
Her amazing drawing skills, her wonderful characterizations, her humour, and her determination to produce films of real significance, mark her out as a truly unique, female voice.
With the exception of the Academy Oscar which has so far eluded her but for which she has received two nominations, she has won just about every major animation award that there is including Emmys, Baftas, major Jury prizes at all the major animation Festivals - it is a very long list indeed. She's been honoured with retrospectives of her work in Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Stuttgart, Zagreb, and Hiroshima, to name a few.
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