
Director
Jon Shenk
Born 1969 · 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.
Directed

Athlete A
Director · 2020

Audrie & Daisy
Director · 2016

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Director · 2017

Lead Me Home
Director · 2021

The Beginning: Making Episode I
Director · 2001

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Director · 2002

Lost Boys of Sudan
Director · 2003

In Waves and War
Director · 2024

The Island President
Director · 2012

The White House Effect
Director · 2024
Splash
Director · 2019
Truth in Ten
Director · 2017
