Bonni Cohen

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Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer [1] and director. [2] She is the co-founder of Actual Films [3] and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. [4] Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home , which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. [5] She also recently co-directed Athlete A , which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary [6] and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. [7] 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. [8] Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund. [9]

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Career

Cohen co-directed Athlete A [10] and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power . [11] [2] In 2016, Cohen co-directed the film Audrie & Daisy , [12] which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival [13] where it was acquired [14] by Netflix.

Cohen is the producer of The Island President , [15] a documentary about the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. In 2009, Cohen produced the film Wonders are Many, [16] directed by Jon Else, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. [17] Cohen co-directed Inside Guantanamo with Else. [18] Cohen also served as Executive Producer [3] of the documentary films 3.5 Minutes and Art and Craft.

Filmography

Directed features

Producing credits

Awards and nominations

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