Jon Shenk
Known for 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
Athlete A
2020
Director
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Director
Lead Me Home
2021
Director
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Director
Audrie & Daisy
2016
Director
In Waves and War
2024
Director
In Waves and War
2024
Producer
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
Executive Producer
The Rape of Europa
2007
Producer
Art and Science Collide
2025
Executive Producer
The White House Effect
2024
Director
The White House Effect
2024
Producer
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
Director
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
Producer
The Island President
2012
Director
Any Problem is No Problem
2025
Executive Producer
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013
Executive Producer
Truth in Ten
2017
Director
Surf Nation
2022
Executive Producer
Mercedes
2025
Executive Producer