Jon Shenk
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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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The White House Effect (2024)
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The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I (2001)
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Athlete A (2020)
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
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From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II (2002)
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In Waves and War (2024)
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Lead Me Home (2021)
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Audrie & Daisy (2016)
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The Island President (2012)
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Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
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Splash (2019)
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Truth in Ten (2017)
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