Biography

Joanne has directed Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony and Emmy award winning actors in a host of feature films including: The Ultimate Legacy, Discarded Things and Trinity Goodheart. Her latest feature film is a period drama set in 1966 entitled When We Last Spoke and stars Cloris Leachman, Melissa Gilbert, Darby Camp and Corbin Bernsen. The film won the prestigious Austin Film Festival Audience Favorite award and premiered in theaters and broadcast on the Hallmark Channel. Joanne is a Nichol's Fellowship screenwriting Finalist as well as Americans for the Arts workshop recipient. Joanne has directed over 30 episodes of True Crime television such as Southern Gothic, FBI Criminal Pursuit, Ice Cold Killers and Happily Never After for cable networks such as Discovery ID, A&E Biography and Lifetime. Her documentary projects include Charles Canon: A Mind for Business, The James B. Duke Story, Laugh at Us, and In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel . Her films can be seen streaming on Amazon and also on PBS. Most recently she completed two notable pop-culture documentaries; award-winning audience favorite, Purple Dreams, which premiered to a sold-out crowd at the prestigious Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and at Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Maltin introduced her passion project, Martin Hill: Camera Man, at the film's recent world premiere and showcased imagery filmed with Charlie Chaplin's personal 35mm Bolex camera that capture the iconic feature, The Kid and Gold Rush. The camera was operated for the first time in over 60 years by Hock herself for the documentary. Known to break glass ceilings, Joanne continues to push boundaries and work in the ever-evolving film industry. Joanne has several screenplays and feature films in development.

- IMDb mini biography by: Paul Barrett

Known for her even keel presence on set, Joanne Hock is a multi-talented writer/director/cinematographer that's been working in the film industry for over 30 years.

Joanne was an ad agency copywriter/producer that was "bitten" by the production bug while working on commercials. Pushing boundaries, she was eventually tapped by Kodak Films in the mid-90's as one of the few women cinematographers working in the business. Joanne lensed hundreds of TV ads before shifting into feature narratives. In the last 12 years she's helmed 7 movies and directed several Hollywood legends: including Cloris Leachman, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Welch, Melissa Gilbert, Bill Cobbs and James Hong. Joanne also built a reputation for creatively shaping emerging talent and their on camera performances including Darby Camp, Madison Bailey and Erika Gluck.

Storytelling is her passion and Joanne loves both the mental and physical challenge of a demanding schedule. She's helmed 8 documentaries as either Director or DP and has 30+ cable TV network True Crime shows to her credit.

Her screenplay for When We Last Spoke won the prestigious Austin Film Festival Audience Favorite Award and her script, Wednesdays at the Gem, a Nichols Fellowship Finalist, is now in development through her company, Joanne Hock Films.

- IMDb mini biography by: T. Morgan