Jon Shenk
Directing · Born 1969-01-01 · age 57 · 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.
Titles
Athlete A
Audrie & Daisy
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Lead Me Home
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
The Rape of Europa
Lost Boys of Sudan
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
The Island President
Smile Pinki
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
The White House Effect
In Waves and War
The Seer and the Unseen
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
Splash
New Muslim Cool
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Mercedes
Any Problem is No Problem
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco