---
name: "Jonathan Sehring"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-sehring"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-sehring"
imdb_id: "nm0782270"
tmdb_id: 6510
wikidata_id: "Q95908018"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-03T21:17:49.787823+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."
---

# Jonathan Sehring

## Identity

Jonathan Sehring

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-sehring
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-sehring
- **IMDb ID:** nm0782270
- **TMDB ID:** 6510
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95908018
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95908018, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6510

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1999–2014
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 69 (3), 2010s 88 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 71 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 2, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $91m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95908018, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6510

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Boyhood*](https://film.one/film/boyhood.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jonathan Sehring is a film producer and former executive at IFC Films. He was part of the team that launched the Independent Film Channel in 1994 and subsequently created IFC Films and IFC Productions.

Sehring produced *Boyhood* (2014), having overseen its financing across the film’s 12-year production period. He served as executive producer on numerous independent films, including *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), *Waking Life* (2001), *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005) and *Monsoon Wedding* (2001). Under his leadership, IFC Films launched the genre label IFC Midnight and the Sundance Selects distribution label in 2009, and pioneered a theatrical and video-on-demand day-and-date release model.

Sehring departed IFC Films at the end of 2018 after nearly four decades with its parent company.

*Sources: imdb.com, theguardian.com, deadline.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Boyhood* (2014), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/boyhood.md)
- *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md)
- *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005), Fi1m 54, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose.md)
- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), Fi1m 85, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *The Torch* (2022), Producer
- *Boyhood* (2014), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/boyhood.md)
- *Dealin' with Idiots* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Bull Sessions: The Making of ‘Rank’* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Lonesome Jim* (2005), Executive Producer
- *American Gun* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Sorry, Haters* (2005), Executive Producer
- *The Baxter* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md)
- *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005), Executive Producer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose.md)
- *Land of Plenty* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Murder by Numbers* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Pieces of April* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Casa de los Babys* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Intermission* (2003), Executive Producer
- *A Decade Under the Influence* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Ten Tiny Love Stories* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Tadpole* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Happy Here and Now* (2002), Executive Producer
- *World Traveler* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Coastlines* (2002), Producer
- *Personal Velocity* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Tape* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Waking Life* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Chelsea Walls* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)
- *Songcatcher* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Spring Forward* (2000), Executive Producer
- *The Name of This Film Is Dogme95* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Girlfight* (2000), Executive Producer
- *The American Nightmare* (2000), Producer
- *Divine Trash* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Happy Accidents* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Our Song* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), Executive Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)
- *Gray's Anatomy* (1996), Executive Producer

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