Rep. Thomas W. Moakley, State Representative, Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket District will join us for after film discussion, along with co-directors Jon Shenk, Bonnie Cohen and Pedro Kos
Three decades ago, the world was poised to stop global warming. Using exclusively archival material, THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT tells the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.
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Thomas Moakley is the State Representative for Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket District. Serving the towns of Falmouth, Nantucket, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, West Tisbury, Chilmark, Aquinnah and Gosnold.
Jon Shenk is an Academy Award®-nominated Director and Cinematographer, as well as the co-founder of Actual Films. Recent work includes directing In Waves & War with his partner Bonni Cohen, and directing and producing The White House Effect – both of which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Jon also was the Cinematographer for Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore which premiered at Sundance 2025. Prior he co-directed the Oscar®-nominated short film Lead Me Home, which premiered at Telluride and is a Netflix Original. Previously, Shenk and Bonni Cohen co-directed Athlete A (Netflix), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and was nominated for five Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, winning for Best Sports Documentary.
Bonni Cohen is an acclaimed documentary director and creative producer, as well as the co-founder of Actual Films and the Catapult Film Fund. Current work includes directing In Waves & War with her partner Jon Shenk, and directing and producing The White House Effect. Both films are premiering at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Recent projects include producing the Oscar-nominated short Lead Me Home (Netflix) and directing Make A Splash (ESPN.) Prior, she co-directed the feature Athlete A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and was a Netflix top 10 film for many weeks running. Previously, Cohen co-directed An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which was selected as opening night film at the Sundance Film Festival, shortlisted for the Oscars and was BAFTA-nominated for Best Documentary.
Pedro Kos most recently co-directed the Netflix Original Documentary Short LEAD ME HOME (2021) with Jon Shenk, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His latest documentary feature film REBEL HEARTS, which he directed, wrote, and edited premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+. Prior to that he wrote and produced Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer’s Netflix Original Documentary THE GREAT HACK which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award. His feature directorial debut BENDING THE ARC (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, he edited Jehane Noujaim’s Academy Award nominee THE SQUARE which earned Pedro an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, Lucy Walker’s Academy Award nominee WASTE LAND and THE CRASH REEL (2013 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award winner), Jon Shenk’s THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (2011 TIFF Documentary People’s Choice Award winner) among others. Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University
