Known For
Directing
Known Credits
1
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 1, 1969 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
| 2025 | Art and Science Collide...Executive Producer | |
| 2025 | Mercedes...Executive Producer | |
| 2025 | Any Problem is No Problem...Executive Producer | |
| 2024 | The White House Effect...Producer | |
| 2024 | In Waves and War...Producer | |
| 2023 | Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever...Executive Producer | |
| 2022 | Make a Splash...Executive Producer | |
| 2022 | Surf Nation...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Just Breathe...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | The Seer and the Unseen...Executive Producer | |
| 2013 | American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco...Executive Producer | |
| 2007 | The Rape of Europa...Producer | |
| 2003 | Lost Boys of Sudan...Producer | |
| 2002 | From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II...Producer |
| 2025 | Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore...Director of Photography | |
| 2024 | In Waves and War...Director of Photography | |
| 2023 | Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever...Camera Operator | |
| 2020 | Athlete A...Director of Photography | |
| 2019 | RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words...Director of Photography | |
| 2017 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power...Director of Photography | |
| 2016 | Audrie & Daisy...Director of Photography | |
| 2012 | The Island President...Director of Photography | |
| 2009 | Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil...Director of Photography | |
| 2009 | New Muslim Cool...Director of Photography | |
| 2008 | Smile Pinki...Director of Photography | |
| 2001 | The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I...Director of Photography | |
| 1999 | Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott...Assistant Camera | |
| History's Secrets: Atomic Bomb...Additional Camera |
| 2024 | The White House Effect...Director | |
| 2024 | In Waves and War...Director | |
| 2021 | Lead Me Home...Director | |
| 2020 | Athlete A...Director | |
| 2019 | Splash...Director | |
| 2017 | Truth in Ten...Director | |
| 2017 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power...Director | |
| 2016 | Audrie & Daisy...Director | |
| 2012 | The Island President...Director | |
| 2003 | Lost Boys of Sudan...Director | |
| 2002 | From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II...Director | |
| 2001 | The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I...Director |
| 2021 | Lead Me Home...Cinematography |
| 1996 | The Daily Showas Self - Guest |
