Jon Shenk
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.
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1 January 1969
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
Jonathan Shenk, Джон Шенк
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
Lead Me Home
2021-09-03Cinematography, Director
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003-04-24Director, Producer
The Island President
2012-03-28Director, Director of Photography
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001-10-16Director of Photography, Director
New Muslim Cool
2009-10-14Director of Photography
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019-06-22Director of Photography
The Seer and the Unseen
2019-04-13Executive Producer
Audrie & Daisy
2016-09-23Director, Director of Photography
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997-06-24Assistant Editor
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999-01-01Assistant Camera
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017-07-28Director, Director of Photography
Truth in Ten
2017-11-01Director
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002-11-12Producer, Director
In Waves and War
2024-08-29Director, Producer, Director of Photography
The White House Effect
2024-08-31Director, Producer
Smile Pinki
2008-12-31Director of Photography
Athlete A
2020-06-23Director, Director of Photography
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009-11-29Director of Photography
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025-06-20Cinematography
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Additional Camera
Mercedes
2025-04-05Executive Producer
Splash
2019-10-01Director
Any Problem is No Problem
2025-03-31Executive Producer
The Rape of Europa
2007-03-17Producer
Make a Splash
2022-10-01Executive Producer
Just Breathe
2019-10-01Executive Producer
Art and Science Collide
2025-11-12Executive Producer
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013-07-31Executive Producer
Surf Nation
2022-05-07Executive Producer
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023-02-28Executive Producer, Camera Operator
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