---
name: "Joe Penna"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-penna"
fi1m_id: "joe-penna"
imdb_id: "nm1020835"
tmdb_id: 1163460
wikidata_id: "Q1691554"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "29 May 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-03T08:11:02.781317+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joe Penna

## Identity

Joe Penna

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-penna
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-penna
- **IMDb ID:** nm1020835
- **TMDB ID:** 1163460
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1691554
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Penna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020835/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1163460

Producer and director. Born 29 May 1987 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 29 May 1987, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- **Also known as:** MysteryGuitarMan, Jônatas de Moura Penna, جو بينا
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Penna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020835/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1163460

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Arctic*](https://film.one/film/arctic.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joe Penna, also known as MysteryGuitarMan, is a Brazilian filmmaker, musician and YouTuber. Born Jônatas de Moura Penna on 29 May 1987 in São Paulo, he rose to prominence through his YouTube channel, which features inventive short films, music videos and animations. He later directed commercials and music videos before moving into narrative shorts, including *Turning Point* (2015), which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Penna made his feature debut as director and co-writer (with Ryan Morrison) of the survival drama *Arctic* (2018), starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was shot in Iceland. He subsequently directed and co-wrote the science-fiction film *Stowaway* (2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, festival-cannes.com, filmmakermagazine.com, polygon.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Arctic* (2018), Fi1m 75, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/arctic.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Woman of the Hour* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Stowaway* (2021), Executive Producer, Writer, Director
- *Arctic* (2018), Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/arctic.md)
- *Turning Point* (2015), Writer, Director
- *Beyond* (2015), Executive Producer, Director, Writer
- *Instant Getaway* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Xploration Earth 2050* (2014), series, as Host
- *Please Subscribe* (2013), Actor
- *Meridian* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Annoying Orange* (2009), series, as MysteryPotatoMan
- *Just One Time* (1998), Sound Editor
- *Trespasser*, Director
- *Arctic 30*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Joe Penna](https://film.one/media/person/5519026/gallery-881ca42be3d2.jpg) Joe Penna — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Joe_Penna_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Joe_Penna_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Joe Penna](https://film.one/media/person/5519026/gallery-558da1391f2b.png) Joe Penna — CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Joe_penna.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/joe-penna