乔安娜·普莱斯特莉，Joanna Priestley has produced and directed 19 animated films that have screened at top film festivals all over the world, including the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, Taos Talking Pictures, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, the International Tournee of Animation, and the World Animation Celebration, just to name a few. In addition to her festival screenings and retrospectives at venues such as MoMa New York and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, her work has screened on both PBS and the BBC. In addition to her own animated films, Priestley has also created animation for wide variety of projects, ranging from "Sesame Street" to music videos for Tears for Fears ("Sowing the Seeds of Love") and Joni Mitchell ("Good Friends"). Joanna Priestley is the founding president of ASIFA-Northwest, and she runs an apprenticeship program through her studio in Portland, Oregon. Her teaching credentials include stints at the Art Institute of Portland, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Northwest Film Center/Portland Art Museum and Volda College (Norway). She has received fellowships from many prestigious foundations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, and Creative Capital. Priestley studied painting and printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and at UC Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors. Ms. Priestley also attended California Institute of the Arts where she received an MFA Degree and the Louis B. Mayer Award. In her spare time, she enjoys medicinal herbalism, gardening and Burning Man.