Joe Penna facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Joe Penna
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Penna in concert, June 2012
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Jônatas de Moura Penna
May 29, 1987 São Paulo, Brazil
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Known for | Stop motion, animation, music, and videography |
| Spouse(s) |
Sarah Penna
(m. 2011) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Instruments | Guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Jônatas de Moura Penna, known to many as Joe Penna, is a talented filmmaker and musician from Brazil. He was born on May 29, 1987. Joe is famous for his awesome videos on his YouTube channel, MysteryGuitarMan, and for directing exciting movies. Today, he lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Amazing Films Joe Penna Directed
Joe Penna has directed several cool movies. His films have been shown at big festivals and watched by many people around the world.
Turning Point and Arctic
In March 2016, Joe's short film called Turning Point was chosen to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. This is a very important film festival!
Then, in February 2017, Joe started making his first full-length movie as a director. It was called Arctic. This movie was filmed in Iceland and starred the famous actor Mads Mikkelsen. Arctic got great reviews and was even chosen for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It first came out in theaters on February 1, 2019.
Stowaway and Other Projects
In June 2019, Joe began filming a science fiction movie called Stowaway. This film had popular actors like Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stowaway was released later than planned. But then, Netflix bought the rights to the movie! It quickly became the number one movie watched worldwide on Netflix. Because of this success, Netflix also bought the rights to Joe's earlier film, Arctic, which also became a top movie in the United States.
In August 2022, Joe Penna agreed to direct another sci-fi thriller called Trespasser. This movie is about a father and daughter who live alone and meet a strange creature from another world.
In December 2022, Joe also helped produce a movie called Woman of the Hour. This film was directed by Anna Kendrick. It was sold to Netflix for a lot of money and got a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes, which means critics loved it!
Joe Penna's YouTube Journey
Joe Penna is also very well-known for his YouTube channel, MysteryGuitarMan. He started this channel on June 16, 2006.
MysteryGuitarMan's Popularity
By January 2011, MysteryGuitarMan became the most subscribed channel in Brazil. As of January 2024, his channel has more than 2.6 million subscribers! His videos have been watched almost 400 million times. That's a lot of views!
Joe also started a second YouTube channel on September 11, 2005. On this channel, he shares videos about how he makes his main videos and also vlogs (video blogs) about his life. This second channel quickly became one of the most subscribed channels in Brazil too.
Media Attention and Awards
In 2007, Joe Penna's YouTube channel was one of the first to get attention from big news companies. His video called The Puzzle was even shown on the front page of YouTube.
In 2009, another one of his videos, Guitar: Impossible, was featured on YouTube's front page. This video was also talked about on a popular TV show in the Netherlands and on an Austrian radio station. It even appeared on the front page of MSN.com!
Joe won $15,000 in a video challenge from Best Buy. He was also a finalist in a video competition for Oreo cookies. Ford also chose him to be a "Fiesta Agent" for their car. YouTube itself even said "Guitar: Impossible" was one of the best videos of 2009.
In 2010, Joe's video Root Beer Mozart was shown on CNN's morning show, Morning Express with Robin Meade, and on a TV show in Germany.
Joe Penna in Television
Joe Penna has also worked on television shows and commercials.
In 2009, Joe directed a commercial starring Rhett and Link called T-Shirt War. This commercial became very popular around the world. After that, Joe was named one of the top 10 new directors at a big advertising event called the Cannes Lions Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase.
Because the T-Shirt War commercial was so successful, Joe and the original actors were hired to make a new commercial for Coca-Cola and McDonald's. A year later, Joe directed and starred in another commercial for these two big companies.
In June 2010, CNN Money featured Joe Penna in their series about "Best Jobs."
His cool stop-motion short film Guitar: Impossible was even chosen to be shown at the Guggenheim museum.
In 2012, Joe helped write and direct an interactive thriller series called Meridian. It starred actors like Orlando Jones.
In August 2014, Joe Penna became the host of a TV show called Xploration Earth 2050. This show was all about technology. The show later received eight nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award, which is a big award for TV shows!
Joe Penna and AI Technology
In May 2023, Joe Penna was part of a team that wrote an important paper about text-to-image generation. This is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that creates images from text descriptions.
The team introduced something called PickScore. This is a special way to measure how good AI-generated images are at matching what humans like. They suggested using PickScore to check future text-to-image models. They also said that using "Pick-a-Pic" prompts (special instructions for the AI) is a better way to test these models than older methods.
This paper was followed by another paper that showed how to make even better AI models for creating high-quality images.
See also
In Spanish: Joe Penna para niños
