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name: "Joel Novoa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joel-novoa"
fi1m_id: "joel-novoa"
imdb_id: "nm1629105"
tmdb_id: 1208267
wikidata_id: "Q91233435"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T22:54:19.574264+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."
---

# Joel Novoa

## Identity

Joel Novoa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joel-novoa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joel-novoa
- **IMDb ID:** nm1629105
- **TMDB ID:** 1208267
- **Wikidata ID:** Q91233435
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91233435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1629105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1208267

Director. Born in New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91233435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1629105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1208267

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Cobra Kai*](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Joel Novoa is a film and television director. Born in New York, he grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. He holds a law degree and an MFA in directing from the American Film Institute.

Novoa directed the feature *God's Slave* (2013), which was filmed across four South American countries, received a theatrical release and Netflix distribution, and won 18 international awards. He has directed episodes of series including *Cobra Kai* (2018–), *Arrow* (2012–), *Walker* (2021–), *Blood & Treasure* (2019–) and *Tracker* (2024–).

He received the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award in 2012 and the Caucus Foundation Award in 2012.

*Sources: joelnovoa.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cobra Kai* (2018), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Tracker* (2024), series, Director
- *Obliterated* (2023), series, Director
- *Walker* (2021), series, Director
- *Blood & Treasure* (2019), series, Director
- *Cobra Kai* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)
- *The Nanny* (2018), Director
- *Day of Reckoning* (2017), Director
- *Tamara* (2016), Story, Assistant Director
- *ID2: Shadwell Army* (2016), Director
- *God's Slave* (2013), Director
- *Checkpoint* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Arrow* (2012), series, Director
- *Zona Cero* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Glue Sniffer* (1999), Production Manager
- *El Gato*, series, Co-Executive Producer

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