Jon Shenk

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Directing

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.

Filmography

• The Coral Rescuers (2026)
• Art and Science Collide (2025)
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025)
• Mercedes (2025)
• Any Problem is No Problem (2025)
• In Waves and War (2024)
• The White House Effect (2024)
• Make a Splash (2022)
• Surf Nation (2022)
• Lead Me Home (2021)
• Athlete A (2020)
• Splash (2019)
• Just Breathe (2019)
• RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words (2019)
• The Seer and the Unseen (2019)
• Truth in Ten (2017)
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
• Audrie & Daisy (2016)
• American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (2013)
• The Island President (2012)
• Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil (2009)
• New Muslim Cool (2009)
• Smile Pinki (2008)
• The Rape of Europa (2007)
• Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
• From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II (2002)
• The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I (2001)
• Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott (1999)
• History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb