Joecar Hanna, a Chinese-Lebanese filmmaker, was raised in Valencia, Spain, and is currently a fourth-year student in the Graduate Film MFA program at NYU.

Before coming to New York, Joecar edited six feature films and a TV show, including «El Desentierro”, a film featuring renowned Almodóvar actors and «Bikes, The Movie.”, nominated for a Goya. At 25, he directed «La Otra Educación,» a documentary fiction film, which he co-directed, edited, and written with Carmen Pellicer Iborra, a notable Spanish educational figure within the academic sphere.

Upon moving to New York, he began to gain recognition for his writing and directing work at NYU, initially winning the Black Family Prize for his short film script. His second-year film, ‘Deliver Me,’ his debut narrative short film, premiered at SXSW 2023 in the Main Shorts Competition and was sold to Canal+, earning him a nomination for the Student BAFTA Scholarship and the Ang Lee Scholarship Award for his third year at NYU. Joecar was also selected as one of five writer/director fellows for the Marcie Bloom Fellowship (Sony Picture Classics) in 2022-2023.
After starring in his own film, Joecar played the protagonist role and edited ‘Lump,’ the upcoming feature film by director Alexandre Rockwell, winner of the Special Mention Award at the Warsaw Film Festival 2024.

He is currently developing his first feature while distributing his thesis short ‘Talk Me’—Executive Produced by Spike Lee—which premiered at Cannes 2025 and won TIFF’s Best International Short Award.