Jon Shenk
Known for: Directing
Born: December 31, 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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
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The Daily Show
Self - Guest
Lead Me Home
Cinematography
Lost Boys of Sudan
Director
The Island President
Director
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Director of Photography
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Director of Photography
New Muslim Cool
Director of Photography
The Seer and the Unseen
Executive Producer
Audrie & Daisy
Director
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Assistant Editor
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
Assistant Camera
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Director
Truth in Ten
Director
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Producer
In Waves and War
Director
The White House Effect
Director
Smile Pinki
Director of Photography
Athlete A
Director
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Director of Photography
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Cinematography
History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Additional Camera
Mercedes
Executive Producer
Splash
Director
Any Problem is No Problem
Executive Producer