---
name: "Bonni Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bonni-cohen"
fi1m_id: "bonni-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm1010896"
tmdb_id: 1260119
wikidata_id: "Q24661042"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:49:06.735749+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bonni Cohen

## Identity

Bonni Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bonni-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bonni-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm1010896
- **TMDB ID:** 1260119
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24661042
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonni_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24661042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1010896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1260119

Director. Born 1 January 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1975
- **Also known as:** Бонни Коэн
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonni_Cohen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24661042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1010896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1260119

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power*](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md) (58)

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## Biography

Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film director and producer. She is co-founder, with her husband Jon Shenk, of Actual Films and co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund.

Cohen co-directed *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), *Athlete A* (2020) and *Audrie & Daisy* (2016). She produced *The Island President* (2011) and *Lead Me Home* (2021). Her earlier credits include producing and directing *The Rape of Europa* (2006).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, actualfilms.net, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Coral Rescuers* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Art and Science Collide* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore* (2025), Producer
- *Vivien’s Wild Ride* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Mercedes* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The White House Effect* (2024), Producer, Director
- *In Waves and War* (2024), Director, Producer
- *Night of Nights* (2024), Executive Producer
- *One with the Whale* (2023), Executive Producer
- *LIFT* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Make a Splash* (2022), Director
- *Surf Nation* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Lead Me Home* (2021), Producer
- *Athlete A* (2020), Director
- *Just Breathe* (2019), Director, Executive Producer
- *Cooked: Survival by Zip Code* (2019), Consulting Producer
- *The Seer and the Unseen* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Life Overtakes Me* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Truth in Ten* (2017), Director
- *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md)
- *When God Sleeps* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Audrie & Daisy* (2016), Producer, Director
- *Extremis* (2016), Executive Producer
- *3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Art and Craft* (2014), Executive Producer
- *The Last Season* (2014), Consulting Producer
- *Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic* (2013), Producer
- *American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco* (2013), Executive Producer
- *The Island President* (2012), Producer
- *The Rape of Europa* (2007), Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
- *Open Outcry* (2001), Producer
- *They Drew Fire* (2000), Producer
- *Wild on the Set* (2000), series, Director
- *Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm* (1998), Director, Producer
- *Meet Me in Miami Beach* (1994), Director, Editor, Producer
- *National Geographic Explorer* (1985), series, Producer, Director, Writer
- *Untitled Gilmore Girls Documentary*, Director, Producer
- *Postmortem*, Executive Producer

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