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Bonni Cohen

Director, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1975 (51 years)
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

  • An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
  • Audrie & Daisy
  • Athlete A
  • Lead Me Home
  • 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
  • The Rape of Europa
  • Extremis
  • Life Overtakes Me
  • The Island President
  • In Waves and War
  • Explorer
  • The White House Effect
  • When God Sleeps
  • How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
  • Human Sexes
  • Wonders Are Many
  • One with the Whale
  • Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
  • The Last Season
  • Surf Nation
  • Independent Lens

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