Jon Shenk
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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.
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Jonathan Shenk · Джон Шенк
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Known For
The Daily Show
1996 · TV
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023 · TV
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017 · Movie
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
2001 · Movie
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
2002 · Movie
The White House Effect
2024 · Movie
Athlete A
2020 · Movie
Lead Me Home
2021 · Movie
In Waves and War
2024 · Movie
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025 · Movie
Surf Nation
2022 · Movie
Art and Science Collide
2025 · Movie