Director
Bonni Cohen
51 years · 11 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 11
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025 · Producer
On Kanopy
In Waves and War
2024 · Director, Producer
The White House Effect
2024 · Director, Producer
Lead Me Home
2021 · Producer
On Netflix
Athlete A
2020 · Director
On Netflix
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017 · Director
On Philo
Audrie & Daisy
2016 · Director, Producer
On Netflix
The Island President
2012 · Producer
On Plex
The Rape of Europa
2007 · Director, Writer
On OVID
Open Outcry
2001 · Producer
Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm
1998 · Director, Producer