Bonni Cohen
- Directing
- January 1, 1975
Biography
Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer and director. She is the co-founder of Actual Films and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed Athlete A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. She is the co-founder of Actual Films, the production company of the documentaries An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Audrie & Daisy, 3.5 Minutes, The Island President, Lost Boys of Sudan and The Rape of Europa. Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund.
Known for
Filmography
- The Coral Rescuers · Executive producer
- Art and Science Collide · Executive producer
- Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore · Producer
- Vivien’s Wild Ride · Executive producer
- Mercedes · Executive producer
- In Waves and War · Director, Producer
- The White House Effect · Producer, Director
- Night of Nights · Executive producer
- One with the Whale · Executive producer
- LIFT · Executive producer
- Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever · Executive producer
- Make a Splash · Director
- Surf Nation · Executive producer
- Lead Me Home · Producer
- Athlete A · Director
- Just Breathe · Director, Executive producer
- Cooked: Survival by Zip Code · Consulting Producer
- The Seer and the Unseen · Executive producer
- Life Overtakes Me · Executive producer
- Truth in Ten · Director
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power · Director
- When God Sleeps · Executive producer
- Audrie & Daisy · Producer, Director
- Extremis · Executive producer
- 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets · Executive producer
- Art and Craft · Executive producer
- The Last Season · Consulting Producer
- Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic · Producer
- American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco · Executive producer
- The Island President · Producer
- The Rape of Europa · Director, Writer
- Open Outcry · Producer
- They Drew Fire · Producer
- Wild on the Set · Director
- Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm · Director, Producer
- Meet Me in Miami Beach · Director, Editing
- National Geographic Explorer · Producer, Director
- Untitled Gilmore Girls Documentary · Director, Producer
- Postmortem · Executive producer