Jon Shenk
Director, Producer
January 1, 1969 (57 years)
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
Featured Videos
Filmography
| 2022 | The Oscars · as Self |
| 2013 | CNN This Morning · as Self |
| 2004 | The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show · as Self - Guest |
| 2025 | Any Problem Is No Problem · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 2023 | Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Seer and the Unseen · as Executive Producer |
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| 1988 |
| 2025 | Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore · as Cinematographer |
| 2024 | In Waves and War · as Director Of Photography |
| 2021 | Lead Me Home · as Director Of Photography |
| 2020 | Athlete A · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words · as Director Of Photography |
| 2017 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power · as Director Of Photography |
| 2016 | Soundbreaking · as Cinematographer |
| 2016 | Audrie & Daisy · as Director Of Photography |
| 2013 | The Revolutionary Optimists · as Cinematographer |
| 2013 | The Battle of Amfar · as Cinematographer |
| 2011 | The Island President · as Director Of PhotographyOn Plex |
| 2011 | Eames: The Architect & The Painter · as CinematographerOn Plex |
| 2010 | Through the Wormhole · as Cinematographer |
| 2009 | New Muslim Cool · as Director Of Photography |
| 2009 | Nourish: Food + Community · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Smile Pinki · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | The Rape of Europa · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | The Human Behavior Experiments · as Cinematographer |
| 2003 | Lost Boys of Sudan · as Cinematographer |
| 2001 | The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' · as Director Of Photography |
| 1997 | History Undercover · as Cinematographer |
| 1988 | P.O.V. · as Cinematographer |
| 1985 | Explorer · as Cinematographer |
| 1983 | Frontline · as Cinematographer |
| 1974 | NOVA · as Cinematographer |