Janah Elise (b. Bronx, NY) is a Documentary Director & Editor based in NYC
contact: janah.elise.cox at gmail.comDIRECTOR
2022, Melting Snow
Short documentary, The Criterion Collection
EDITOR
2025, For Venida, For Kalief
*Additional Editor
Feature documentary, premiere Tribeca Film Festival
2025, Untitled Andrew Young Documentary
2-part documentary series, MSNBC
2025, Women Count
Short documentary, distributed by TIME Studios
Supported by Sundance Institute & Catapult Film Fund
2025, Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini
4-part documentary series, Peacock
2024, Starting Five
10-part documentary series, Netflix
2024, Men of War
Feature documentary, premiere TIFF
2024, Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE
8-part documentary series, Netflix
2024, Rooted
Feature documentary, premiere New Orleans Film Festival
2023, TLC FOREVER
Feature documentary, A&E
2023, Redefined: J.R. Smith
8-part documentary series, Amazon
2022, Call Me Miss Cleo
Feature documentary, HBO Max
2022, Welcome to Wrexham
8-part documentary series, FX
2022, The Hair Tales
6-part documentary series, Hulu
2021, RACE: Bubba Wallace
6-part documentary series, Netflix
2021, The Color of Care
Feature documentary, Smithsonian Channel
2020, Bad Hombres
Feature documentary, Showtime
2020, The Place That Makes Us
*Additional Editor
Feature documentary, premiere DOC NYC
2018, Watergate — Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President
*Associate Editor
6-part documentary series, A&E
2018, Personal Statement
*Additional Editor
Feature documentary, PBS
2016, Donald Cried
*Additional Editor
Feature narrative, premiere SXSW
HONORS
2022, DOC NYC, 40 Under 40 Awardee
2022, Points North North Star Fellow
2021, En Foco Fellow
2020, IF/Then North Shorts Grant Recipient
2019, Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, Diversity in the Edit Room Mentee
DIRECTOR SELECTED PRESS
Kayla Myers, Filmmaker Magazine (August 16, 2021)
Pain into Joy: BlackStar Film Festival 2021
EDITOR SELECTED PRESS
Jon Caramanica, NYT (September 25, 2024)
New Jeans’ Ultamatum Casts K-Pop’s Displays of Labor in a New Light
Kalia Richardson, NYT (October 27, 2022).
‘The Hair Tales’: Stories of Black Women’s Hair and Self-Acceptance
Rory Smith, NYT (September 16, 2022).
Welcome to Wrexham: It’s The Future