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Jon Shenk is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary film director and director of photography, [1] 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. [2] 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. [3]

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Career

Before founding Actual Films in 1999, he worked for Lucasfilm as the behind-the-scenes documentary filmmaker covering the making of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and directed the documentary The Beginning: Making of Episode 1 (2001). [4]

Shenk has directed, photographed and produced numerous documentary feature films and shorts. [5] Shenk co-directed and photographed Athlete A [6] [7] and AnInconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. [8] In 2016, Shenk co-directed and photographed the film Audrie & Daisy , [9] which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival [10] where it was acquired [11] by Netflix. Shenk is also the director and photographer of The Island President , [12] [13] a documentary about the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed.

Filmography

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Producing Credits

Cinematographer Credits

Awards

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