
Bonni Cohen
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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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Art and Science Collide (2025)
Executive Producer

Life Overtakes Me (2019)
Executive Producer

The Rape of Europa (2007)
Executive Producer

The Seer and the Unseen (2019)
Executive Producer

Extremis (2016)
Executive Producer

Art and Craft (2014)
Executive Producer

One with the Whale (2023)
Executive Producer

LIFT (2023)
Executive Producer

Vivien’s Wild Ride (2025)
Executive Producer

3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (2015)
Executive Producer

When God Sleeps (2017)
Executive Producer

American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (2013)
Executive Producer
Surf Nation (2022)
Executive Producer

Mercedes (2025)
Executive Producer
Just Breathe (2019)
Executive Producer

Night of Nights (2024)
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