Person
Jon Shenk
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 1, 1969
- From
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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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The Daily Show
Lead Me Home
Lost Boys of Sudan
The Island President
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
New Muslim Cool
The Seer and the Unseen
Audrie & Daisy
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Truth in Ten
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
In Waves and War
The White House Effect
Smile Pinki
Athlete A
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil