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Jon Shenk

Director, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1969 (57 years)
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

  • An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
  • Audrie & Daisy
  • Athlete A
  • Lead Me Home
  • The Island President
  • The Rape of Europa
  • In Waves and War
  • The White House Effect
  • Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
  • P.O.V.

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    Filmography

    2022
    The Oscars · as Self
    2016
    The Director's Cut (TV Series) · as Self
    2013
    CNN This Morning (TV Series) · as Self
    2004
    2001
    Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self
    1996
    The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest

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