Bonni Cohen is an American documentary film producer[1] and director.[2] She is the co-founder of Actual Films[3] and has produced and directed an array of award-winning films.[4] Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original.[5] She also recently co-directed Athlete A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary[6] and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards.[7] 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.[8] Cohen is the co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund.[9]
Cohen co-directed Athlete A[10] and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.[11][2] In 2016, Cohen co-directed the film Audrie & Daisy,[12] which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival[13] where it was acquired[14]byNetflix.
Cohen is the producer of The Island President,[15] a documentary about the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. In 2009, Cohen produced the film Wonders are Many,[16] directed by Jon Else, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.[17] Cohen co-directed Inside Guantanamo with Else.[18] Cohen also served as Executive Producer[3] of the documentary films 3.5 Minutes and Art and Craft.
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