Person
Bonni Cohen
Directing · Born 1975-01-01
Biography
Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer and director. She is the co-founder of Actual Films and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed Athlete A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. She is the co-founder of Actual Films, the production company of the documentaries An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Audrie & Daisy, 3.5 Minutes, The Island President, Lost Boys of Sudan and The Rape of Europa. Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund.
Known for
Explorer
Director
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
Executive Producer
Extremis
Executive Producer
Athlete A
Director
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Director
LIFT
Executive Producer
Art and Science Collide
Executive Producer
Open Outcry
Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Producer
In Waves and War
Director
Filmography
- 2025Art and Science CollideExecutive Producer
- 2025Marlee Matlin: Not Alone AnymoreProducer
- 2025Vivien’s Wild RideExecutive Producer
- 2025MercedesExecutive Producer
- 2024In Waves and WarDirector
- 2024The White House EffectProducer
- 2024Night of NightsExecutive Producer
- 2023One with the WhaleExecutive Producer
- 2023LIFTExecutive Producer
- 2023Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda ForeverExecutive Producer
- 2022Make a SplashDirector
- 2022Surf NationExecutive Producer
- 2021Lead Me HomeProducer
- 2020Athlete ADirector
- 2019Just BreatheDirector
- 2019Cooked: Survival by Zip CodeConsulting Producer
- 2019The Seer and the UnseenExecutive Producer
- 2019Life Overtakes MeExecutive Producer
- 2017Truth in TenDirector
- 2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to PowerDirector
- 2017When God SleepsExecutive Producer
- 2016Audrie & DaisyProducer
- 2016ExtremisExecutive Producer
- 20153 ½ Minutes, 10 BulletsExecutive Producer
- 2014Art and CraftExecutive Producer
- 2014The Last SeasonConsulting Producer
- 2013Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor AtomicProducer
- 2013American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San FranciscoExecutive Producer
- 2012The Island PresidentProducer
- 2007The Rape of EuropaDirector
- 2001Open OutcryProducer
- 2000They Drew FireProducer
- 2000Wild on the SetDirector
- 1998Kofi Annan: Eye of the StormDirector
- 1994Meet Me in Miami BeachDirector
- 1985ExplorerDirector
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