Born 1969 (age 57) · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Appears in 31 titles

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

Athlete A
7.5
Athlete A
2020
Director
Audrie & Daisy
7.1
Audrie & Daisy
2016
Director
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Lead Me Home
6.3
Lead Me Home
2021
Director
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Lost Boys of Sudan
6.4
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
Director
The Island President
6.1
The Island President
2012
Director
In Waves and War
6.7
In Waves and War
2024
Director
The White House Effect
5.7
The White House Effect
2024
Director
1.0
Splash
2019
Director
Truth in Ten
2017
Director