Jon Ellison

Jonathan David Ellison was born in Montreal, Canada, but raised in Leicester, England. The second son of an engineer and eye-physician, his original career ambition was to design aircraft, after watching the TV shows by Gerry Anderson as a child. But it wasn’t until his teens when Jon was inspired to enter the film industry while studying A-Level Film Studies. He wrote his first full screenplay (Keep Feeling) Fascination, a Human League musical, at the age of seventeen. He took his ambitions further and enrolled to study a filmmaking course at The University of Northampton. One of his short films, Magic Midget, was screened at the Picturedrome in Northampton. To this end, he earned a bachelor’s degree. Although currently working as a cleaner at a local college to pay off student loans, Jon is still extending his film-production portfolio. He is 30, studying a master’s in Creative Writing at DeMontfort University and working on a new feature-length screenplay for a family film.