About

Khary Saeed Jones pursues film projects that explore the tensions between fiction, memory, and everyday life. His films and collaborations have screened at Sundance, SXSW, MoMA (NY), CIFF (ME), Full Frame (NC), ICA Boston, and many other festivals and venues.

As a writer-director, his work includes the feature documentary Night Fight and the short films Hug, Three and a Half Thoughts, and Chrysalis. Night Fight, which he directed and edited, premiered at SXSW in 2025 and won Best Feature at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. The film also earned Jones the 2025 Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Film Editing Award at IFF Boston.

Jones has also served on the editorial teams behind the documentary features Where the Pavement Ends (PBS WORLD Channel/America ReFramed), Black Memorabilia (PBS/Independent Lens), Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (PBS/American Masters), He Named Me Malala (Fox Searchlight), Sembene! (Kino Lorber), and The World According to Dick Cheney (Showtime).

Born and raised in Camden, New Jersey, Jones is the recipient of awards, grants, residencies, and fellowships from the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, the Harvard Film Study Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Mass Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, the Points North Institute, and the Telly Awards. He studied at Columbia University (MA, MFA) and Morehouse College (BA), and is currently a Professor of the Practice in Drama and Film at Tufts University, where he teaches storytelling for the screen and advises students developing both scripted and documentary projects from inception to edit.