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Jon Shenk

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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Directing

2001

[ ] The Beginning: Making Episode I (Director)

2002

[ ] From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' (Director)

2003

[ ] Lost Boys of Sudan (Director)

2012

[ ] The Island President (Director)

2016

[ ] Audrie & Daisy (Director)

2017

[ ] An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Director)
[ ] Truth in Ten (Director)

2019

[ ] Splash (Director)

2020

[ ] Athlete A (Director)

2021

[ ] Lead Me Home (Director)

2024

[ ] In Waves and War (Director)
[ ] The White House Effect (Director)

Crew

2021

[ ] Lead Me Home (Cinematography)

2025

[ ] Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (Cinematography)

Camera

1999

[ ] Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott (Assistant Camera)

2001

[ ] The Beginning: Making Episode I (Director of Photography)

2008

[ ] Smile Pinki (Director of Photography)

2009

[ ] New Muslim Cool (Director of Photography)
[ ] Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil (Director of Photography)

2012

[ ] The Island President (Director of Photography)

2016

[ ] Audrie & Daisy (Director of Photography)

2017

[ ] An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Director of Photography)

2019

[ ] RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words (Director of Photography)

2020

[ ] Athlete A (Director of Photography)

2024

[ ] In Waves and War (Director of Photography)

????

[ ] History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb (Additional Camera)

Production

2002

[ ] From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' (Producer)

2003

[ ] Lost Boys of Sudan (Producer)

2007

[ ] The Rape of Europa (Producer)

2013

[ ] American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (Executive Producer)

2019

[ ] The Seer and the Unseen (Executive Producer)
[ ] Just Breathe (Executive Producer)

2022

[ ] Make a Splash (Executive Producer)
[ ] Surf Nation (Executive Producer)

2024

[ ] In Waves and War (Producer)
[ ] The White House Effect (Producer)

2025

[ ] Mercedes (Executive Producer)
[ ] Any Problem is No Problem (Executive Producer)
[ ] Art and Science Collide (Executive Producer)

Editing

1997

[ ] Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature (Assistant Editor)