[4] 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.
[5] Jon Shenk was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where he graduated from Wyoming High School.
Shenk also served as the director of photography for the 2008 Academy Award-winning Smile Pinki (directed by Megan Mylan), and he won his first Emmy for Blame Somebody Else (Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports/PBS) in 2007.
In 2011, Shenk directed The Island President (Samuel Goldwyn Films/PBS), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and won the 2011 TIFF’s People’s Choice Award and The International Documentary Association’s (IDA) Pare Lorentz Award.
In 2016, Jon co-directed (with Bonni Cohen) and photographed Audrie & Daisy which premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, was acquired by Netflix, and won a Peabody Award.