Jon Shenk
Director
Biography
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.
As Director
Audrie & Daisy
2016
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Lead Me Home
2021
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
The Island President
2012
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
The White House Effect
2024
In Waves and War
2024
Splash
2019