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Bonni Cohen
Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer and director. She is the co-founder of Actual Films and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. Most recent…
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Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer and director. She is the co-founder of Actual Films and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed Athlete A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. She is the co-founder of Actual Films, the production company of the documentaries An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Audrie & Daisy, 3.5 Minutes, The Island President, Lost Boys of Sudan and The Rape of Europa. Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund.
Filmography
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2026
The Coral Rescuers
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Art and Science Collide
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Movie Producer
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2025
Vivien’s Wild Ride
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Mercedes
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The White House Effect
Movie Director
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2024
In Waves and War
Movie Producer
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2024
Night of Nights
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
One with the Whale
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
LIFT
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Make a Splash
Movie Director
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2022
Surf Nation
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Lead Me Home
Movie Producer
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2020
Athlete A
Movie Director
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2019
Just Breathe
Movie Director
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2019
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Movie Consulting Producer
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2019
The Seer and the Unseen
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Life Overtakes Me
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Truth in Ten
Movie Director
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2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Movie Director
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2017
When God Sleeps
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Audrie & Daisy
Movie Director
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2016
Extremis
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
Art and Craft
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
The Last Season
Movie Consulting Producer
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2013
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic
Movie Producer
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2013
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
The Island President
Movie Producer
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2007
The Rape of Europa
Movie Director
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2001
Open Outcry
Movie Producer
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2000
They Drew Fire
Movie Producer
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2000
Wild on the Set
TV show Director
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1998
Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm
Movie Director
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1994
Meet Me in Miami Beach
Movie Director
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1985
National Geographic Explorer
TV show Director
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Postmortem
Movie Executive Producer
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Untitled Gilmore Girls Documentary
Movie Director
