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.
Directed
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Athlete A (2020) — Director
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Audrie & Daisy (2016) — Director
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) — Director
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Lead Me Home (2021) — Director
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The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I (2001) — Director
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Lost Boys of Sudan (2003) — Director
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The Island President (2012) — Director
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From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II (2002) — Director
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The White House Effect (2024) — Director
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In Waves and War (2024) — Director
- Splash (2019) — Director
- Truth in Ten (2017) — Director
