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 has recently completed a master’s degree in Creative Writing at De Montfort University and working on some new feature length screenplays..