Jon Shenk
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…
Known For
Athlete A
Director
Audrie & Daisy
Director
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Director
Lead Me Home
Cinematography
The Rape of Europa
Producer
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Director
Smile Pinki
Director of Photography
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Director
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Filmography
Acting (1)
Television (1)
Crew (42)
Movies (40)
Art and Science Collide
2025Executive Producer
Mercedes
2025Executive Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025Cinematography
Any Problem is No Problem
2025Executive Producer
The White House Effect
2024Director
The White House Effect
2024Producer
In Waves and War
2024Director
In Waves and War
2024Director of Photography
In Waves and War
2024Producer
Make a Splash
2022Executive Producer
Surf Nation
2022Executive Producer
Lead Me Home
2021Cinematography
Lead Me Home
2021Director
Athlete A
2020Director
Athlete A
2020Director of Photography
Splash
2019Director
The Seer and the Unseen
2019Executive Producer
Just Breathe
2019Executive Producer
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
2019Director of Photography
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017Director
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017Director of Photography
Truth in Ten
2017Director
Audrie & Daisy
2016Director
Audrie & Daisy
2016Director of Photography
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
2013Executive Producer
The Island President
2012Director
The Island President
2012Director of Photography
New Muslim Cool
2009Director of Photography
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009Director of Photography
Smile Pinki
2008Director of Photography
The Rape of Europa
2007Producer
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003Director
Lost Boys of Sudan
2003Producer
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002Director
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002Producer
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001Director
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001Director of Photography
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999Assistant Camera
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997Assistant Editor
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Additional Camera
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