
Jon Shenk
Director
Born: January 1, 1969 (57 years old)
Place of birth: 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 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2022.
Filmography (13)
- The Beginning: Making Episode I (2001, ★ 7.3)
- Lead Me Home (2021, ★ 6.3)
- Lost Boys of Sudan (2003, ★ 6.2)
- Audrie & Daisy (2016, ★ 7.1)
- The Island President (2012, ★ 6.1)
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017, ★ 6.6)
- From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' (2002, ★ 6.5)
- In Waves and War (2024, ★ 6.7)
- The White House Effect (2024, ★ 5.7)
- Smile Pinki (2008, ★ 6.6)
- Athlete A (2020, ★ 7.5)
- The Rape of Europa (2007, ★ 7.4)
- Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever (2023, ★ 4.8)