Directing · geboren 1969-01-01 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Jon Shenk

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.

Bekannt aus

• The Daily Show (1996) – Self - Guest
• Athletin A (2020) – Director
• Audrie & Daisy (2016) – Director
• Immer noch eine unbequeme Wahrheit - Unsere Zeit läuft (2017) – Director
• Nach Hause (2021) – Cinematography
• The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I (2001) – Director of Photography
• The Rape of Europa (2007) – Producer
• Lost Boys of Sudan (2003) – Director
• The Island President (2012) – Director
• From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II (2002) – Producer
• Smile Pinki (2008) – Director of Photography
• Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever (2023) – Executive Producer
• In Waves and War: Ehemalige Navy Seals in Therapie (2024) – Director
• The White House Effect (2024) – Director
• RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words (2019) – Director of Photography
• The Seer and the Unseen (2019) – Executive Producer
• Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil (2009) – Director of Photography
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025) – Director of Photography
• Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott (1999) – Assistant Camera
• Splash (2019) – Director
• Film Independent Spirit Awards (1996) – Self - Winner
• New Muslim Cool (2009) – Director of Photography
• Truth in Ten (2017) – Director
• History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb – Additional Camera
• Mercedes (2025) – Executive Producer
• Any Problem is No Problem (2025) – Executive Producer
• Make a Splash (2022) – Executive Producer
• Just Breathe (2019) – Executive Producer
• Art and Science Collide (2025) – Executive Producer
• American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (2013) – Executive Producer
• Surf Nation (2022) – Executive Producer
• The Coral Rescuers (2026) – Executive Producer