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
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
Feature documentary, premiere DOC NYC
2018, Watergate — Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President
6-part documentary series, A&E
2018, Personal Statement
Feature documentary, PBS
2016, Donald Cried
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