Jon Shenk
Directing
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
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Art and Science Collide
Art and Science Collide
2025
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025
Mercedes
2025
Any Problem is No Problem
2025
In Waves and War
2024
The White House Effect
2024
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023
Make a Splash
Make a Splash
2022
Surf Nation
Surf Nation
2022
Lead Me Home
2021
Athlete A
2020
Splash
Splash
2019
Just Breathe
Just Breathe
2019
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
Truth in Ten
Truth in Ten
2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Audrie & Daisy
2016
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013
The Island President
2012
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
New Muslim Cool
2009
Smile Pinki
2008
The Rape of Europa
2007
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025
Mercedes
2025
Any Problem is No Problem
2025
In Waves and War
2024
The White House Effect
2024
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023
Make a Splash
Make a Splash
2022
Surf Nation
Surf Nation
2022
Lead Me Home
2021
Athlete A
2020
Splash
Splash
2019
Just Breathe
Just Breathe
2019
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
Truth in Ten
Truth in Ten
2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Audrie & Daisy
2016
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013
The Island President
2012
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
New Muslim Cool
2009
Smile Pinki
2008
The Rape of Europa
2007
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
