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
The Daily Show
2026
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
2023
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
1999
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
2001
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
2002
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025
The White House Effect
2024
In Waves and War
2024
Athlete A
2020
The Seer and the Unseen
2019
Lead Me Home
2021