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
BlackStar Film Festival, Best Experimental Short Nominee
EDITOR
2024, Starting Five
10-part documentary series, Netflix
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
Emmy Awards, Outstanding Picture Editing For An Unstructured Reality Program Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
Emmy Awards, Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
Emmy Awards, Outstanding Directing For A Reality Program Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
Emmy Awards, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) Nominee, Welcome to Wrexham
Emmy Awards, Outstanding Cinematography For A Reality Program Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
Critics Choice Documentary Award, Best Sports Documentary Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
Critics Choice Documentary Award, Best Ongoing Documentary Series Winner, Welcome to Wrexham
2022, The Hair Tales
2021, RACE: Bubba Wallace
Emmy Awards, Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Series (Serialized) Winner, RACE
2021, The Color of Care
2020, Bad Hombres
2020, The Place That Makes Us
2019, Retrats
2018, Watergate — Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President
2018, Personal Statement
2016, Donald Cried
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, Emmy Awards, Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary Nominee, Personal Statement
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
EDITORIAL SELECTED PRESS
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