Jon Shenk
Directing
Biography
Jon Shenk is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary film director and director of photography, known for his films Lead Me Home Athlete A, An Inconvenient Sequel, Audrie & Daisy, The Island President, Lost Boys of Sudan. He is the co-founder, with his wife Bonni Cohen, of Actual Films, a documentary film company based in San Francisco, CA. He co-directed (with Pedro Kos) and photographed Lead Me Home which premiered in 2021 at the Telluride Film Festival, was acquired by Netflix, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2022.
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Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
2001
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
2002
Athlete A
2020
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025
Art and Science Collide
2025
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
In Waves and War
2024
Lead Me Home
2021
The White House Effect
2024
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
Audrie & Daisy
2016
The Rape of Europa
2007
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
The Island President
2012
Truth in Ten
2017
Surf Nation
2022
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019
Smile Pinki
2008
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
Make a Splash
2022
Mercedes
2025
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999
Any Problem is No Problem
2025
Just Breathe
2019
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013
New Muslim Cool
2009
Splash
2019