Jon Shenk
Directing
Born: 1969-01-01 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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 wa
🎬 Movies (28)
Mercedes
2025
Executive Producer
Any Problem is No Problem
2025
Executive Producer
Art and Science Collide
2025
Executive Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025
Director of Photography
In Waves and War
2024
Director
The White House Effect
2024
Director
Make a Splash
2022
Executive Producer
Surf Nation
2022
Executive Producer
Lead Me Home
2021
Director
Athlete A
2020
Director
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019
Director of Photography
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
Executive Producer
Splash
2019
Director
Just Breathe
2019
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Director
Truth in Ten
2017
Director
Audrie & Daisy
2016
Director
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013
Executive Producer
The Island President
2012
Director
New Muslim Cool
2009
Director of Photography
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
Director of Photography
Smile Pinki
2008
Director of Photography
The Rape of Europa
2007
Producer
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
Director
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
Director
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Director
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999
Assistant Camera
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
Assistant Editor
