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Jon Shenk
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…
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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.
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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 Director of Photography
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2025
Mercedes
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Any Problem is No Problem
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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2023
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Make a Splash
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Surf Nation
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Lead Me Home
Movie Cinematography
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2020
Athlete A
Movie Director
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2019
Just Breathe
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Splash
Movie Director
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2019
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Movie Director of Photography
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2019
The Seer and the Unseen
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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2016
Audrie & Daisy
Movie Director
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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 Director
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2009
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Movie Director of Photography
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2009
New Muslim Cool
Movie Director of Photography
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2008
Smile Pinki
Movie Director of Photography
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2007
The Rape of Europa
Movie Producer
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2003
Lost Boys of Sudan
Movie Director
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2002
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
Movie Producer
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2001
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
Movie Director of Photography
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1999
Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott
Movie Assistant Camera
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1996
The Daily Show
TV show Self - Guest
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History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb
Movie Additional Camera
