Jon Shenk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1969-01-01 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2022.

Production

2021

Lead Me Home

as Cinematography

2003

2012

2021

Lead Me Home

as Director

2001

The Beginning: Making Episode I

as Director of Photography

2019

2009

New Muslim Cool

as Director of Photography

2019

The Seer and the Unseen

as Executive Producer

2016

Audrie & Daisy

as Director

2017

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

as Director of Photography

2017

Truth in Ten

as Director

2016

Audrie & Daisy

as Director of Photography

2024

In Waves and War

as Director

2024

In Waves and War

as Producer

2024

2024

2012

The Island President

as Director of Photography

2008

Smile Pinki

as Director of Photography

2020

Athlete A

as Director

2009

Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil

as Director of Photography

2020

Athlete A

as Director of Photography

2024

In Waves and War

as Director of Photography

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History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb

as Additional Camera

2025

Mercedes

as Executive Producer

2019

Splash

as Director

2025

Any Problem is No Problem

as Executive Producer

2007

2003

2022

Make a Splash

as Executive Producer

2019

Just Breathe

as Executive Producer

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