JANAH ELISE COX: Documentary Editor

Janah Elise (b. Bronx, NY) is a Documentary Director & Editor based in NYC

contact: janah.elise.cox at gmail.com


DIRECTOR


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

Mark