AfterImage Public Media is...
AfterImage Public Media is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) company established in 2007 to produce and distribute educational media that creatively addresses social, political, historical and cultural subjects. The non-profit company researches issues, develops projects, and raises funds to produce documentary film and television projects and community engagement programs, including educators’ curricula and wide-ranging public events designed to raise awareness about matters in the public interest.
AfterImage Public Media works with filmmakers who have a long and successful history of producing documentary films for wide theatrical and television distribution. Funding partners have included Atlantic Philanthropies, The Fledgling Fund, Fleishhacker Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Koret Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Sundance Documentary Fund, Wells Fargo Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Jon Shenk - President
jon@afterimagepublicmedia.org
JON SHENK (director) recently co-directed ATHLETE A with his film partner, Bonni Cohen. ATHLETE A (Netflix) was selected for the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Jon co-directed and photographed AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Participant Media/Paramount) which premiered on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, was shortlisted for the 2018 Oscars, and was nominated for a 2018 BAFTA for Best Documentary. In 2016, Jon co-directed and photographed the Peabody Award-winning film AUDRIE & DAISY (Netflix), which premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. In 2011, Jon directed THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (Goldwyn Films), winner of the 2011 TIFF’s People’s Choice Award and IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award. Jon was awarded the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for directing LOST BOYS OF SUDAN (Shadow Distribution/PBS), served as the DP for the 2008 Academy Award-winning SMILE PINKI, and won an Emmy for BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE (PBS), 2007.