---
name: "Joelle Garfinkel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joelle-garfinkel"
fi1m_id: "joelle-garfinkel"
imdb_id: "nm2546097"
tmdb_id: 4048539
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:47:52.268455+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."
---

# Joelle Garfinkel

## Identity

Joelle Garfinkel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joelle-garfinkel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joelle-garfinkel
- **IMDb ID:** nm2546097
- **TMDB ID:** 4048539
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2546097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4048539

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2546097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4048539

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Foundation*](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md) (61)

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

## Biography

Joelle Garfinkel is a television writer. She has worked in various capacities on more than twenty series, including as a post-production assistant, writers' assistant, showrunners' assistant, script coordinator and staff writer.

Her writing credits include episodes of *Foundation* (2021), *Fire Country* (2022), *Ordinary Joe* (2021–2022) and *Tig n' Seek* (2020). She created the web series *Cam Girls* (2015), for which she received several awards and nominations. Garfinkel's play *Residual Fear* was a Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist. She was a finalist in the WB Writers' Workshop and participated in the Jewish Federation's Master Class programme. She founded Green Envelope Grocery Aid, a mutual aid fund that provided grants during the 2023 writers' and actors' strikes.

*Sources: imdb.com, joellegarfinkel.com, voyagela.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Foundation* (2021), Fi1m 61, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Fire Country* (2022), series, Writer
- *Foundation* (2021), series, Writer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)

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