Jon Shenk
- Directing
- January 1, 1969 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2022.
Known for
Filmography
- The Coral Rescuers · Executive producer, Cinematography
- Art and Science Collide · Executive producer
- Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore · Cinematography
- Mercedes · Executive producer
- Any Problem is No Problem · Executive producer
- In Waves and War · Director, Producer
- The White House Effect · Director, Producer
- Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever · Executive producer, Camera Operator
- Make a Splash · Executive producer
- Surf Nation · Executive producer
- Lead Me Home · Cinematography, Director
- Athlete A · Director, Cinematography
- Splash · Director
- Just Breathe · Executive producer
- RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words · Cinematography
- The Seer and the Unseen · Executive producer
- Truth in Ten · Director
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power · Director, Cinematography
- Audrie & Daisy · Director, Cinematography
- American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco · Executive producer
- The Island President · Director, Cinematography
- Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil · Cinematography
- New Muslim Cool · Cinematography
- Smile Pinki · Cinematography
- The Rape of Europa · Producer
- Lost Boys of Sudan · Director, Producer
- From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II · Producer, Director
- The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I · Cinematography, Director
- Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott · Assistant Camera
- The Daily Show · Self
- History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb · Additional Camera