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.
Crew

Lead Me Home
Cinematography, Director

Lost Boys of Sudan
Director, Producer

The Island President
Director, Director of Photography

The Beginning: Making Episode I
Director of Photography, Director

New Muslim Cool
Director of Photography

RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Director of Photography

The Seer and the Unseen
Executive Producer

Audrie & Daisy
Director, Director of Photography

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, Director of Photography
Truth in Ten
Director

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
Producer, Director

In Waves and War
Director, Producer, Director of Photography

The White House Effect
Director, Producer

Smile Pinki
Director of Photography

Athlete A
Director, Director of Photography

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

The Rape of Europa
Producer
Make a Splash
Executive Producer
Just Breathe
Executive Producer
Art and Science Collide
Executive Producer

American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco
Executive Producer
Surf Nation
Executive Producer