A warm color portrait of filmmaker Jonna McKone standing outdoors in daylight and looking at the camera. She has short curly brown hair and is wearing a black dress, a slender chain around with a round pendant. The background is out of focus with some greenery, a small lake, and a few buildings.
Jonna McKone
Photo courtesy Jonna McKone
Producer

Jonna McKone (she/her) is a filmmaker, producer, and artist based in Baltimore, MD. She works with documentary, narrative, archives, and abstraction to explore connections between landscapes, the body, and memory. She produced All Light, Everywhere (directed by Theo Anthony) which premiered in Competition at Sundance Film Festival in 2021, where it won a U.S. Special Jury Award. Before working in the film she was an award-winning radio producer for places like the WYPR, BCC, NPR, and WNYC. Her work as an artist and documentarian has received support from Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Artist Grant, Skidmore’s Storytellers’ Institute, Baker Artist Awards, the Puffin Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, the Center for Documentary Studies, and Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work as a producer has received support from Sandbox Films, Cinereach, Rooftop Films, and Chicken & Egg Pictures.

Program cohorts
(Egg)celerator Lab 2022
films by Jonna McKone
Still from Our Daughters
Our Daughters
Still from Our Daughters
more (Egg)celerator Lab 2022 winners
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Ina Fichman
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Marius Markevicius
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