Producer/Director/Photographer
About
Jonna is a filmmaker and artist based in Baltimore, MD. Her work explores memory, landscape, and power. She has directed several short films and her photography has shown in galleries and museums around the US. Her films have played at True/False, Sundance, CPH:Dox, SXSW and Visions du Reel, among others. As a producer, her first feature, All Light, Everywhere, won a Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation at Sundance, a special jury mention at CPH:Dox, and played the closing night of New Directors/New Films. She also produced Margie Soudek’s Salt & Pepper Shakers (Sundance, The New Yorker, 2023), the hybrid mid-length film Your Final Meditation (Rockaway, 2024), The Tallest Dwarf (SXSW 2025, forthcoming on Independent Lens), and To Use a Mountain, which received a Special Jury Award at Visions du Réel in 2025.
Her films have received support from Sandbox Films, Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation|Just Films, Redford Center, SFFILM, Princess Grace, Points North, ITVS, Cinereach, IDA, and Rooftop Films, among others. She was named one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” in 2023. As an artist, McKone has received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation, Rubys Artist Grant, Baker Artist Awards, Puffin Foundation, and Maryland State Arts Council. She has been a Lewis Hine Fellow at the Center for Documentary Studies, a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and a Points North Fellow, as well as an artist-in-residence at Monson Art’s Abbott Watts Photo Residency, Platteforum, and Skidmore’s Storyteller’s Institute. She is currently working on Slow Drift, which explores former plantation landscapes in Maryland and Virginia through photography, experimental silver gelatin processes, and installation.
