Bonni Cohen
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.
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Films (36)
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
In Waves and War
2024 · Director, Producer
The White House Effect
2024 · Director, Producer
Night of Nights
2024 · Executive Producer
One with the Whale
2023 · Executive Producer
LIFT
2023 · Executive Producer
Make a Splash
2022 · Director
Surf Nation
2022 · Executive Producer
Des vies sans toit
2021 · Producer
Team USA : Scandale dans le monde de la gymnastique
2020 · Director
Just Breathe
2019 · Director, Executive Producer
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
2019 · Consulting Producer
The Seer and the Unseen
2019 · Executive Producer
Des vies en suspens
2019 · Executive Producer
Truth in Ten
2017 · Director
Une Suite qui dérange : Le temps de l'action
2017 · Director
When God Sleeps
2017 · Executive Producer
Audrie y Daisy
2016 · Director, Producer
Extremis
2016 · Executive Producer
3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets
2015 · Executive Producer
Le Faussaire
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
Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm
1998 · Director, Producer
Meet Me in Miami Beach
1994 · Director, Editor, Producer
Untitled Gilmore Girls Documentary
· Director, Producer
Postmortem
· Executive Producer
