Jon Sorensen(I)
- Visual Effects
- Composer
- Writer
Jon Sorensen was born and raised in rural Scotland. He had two parents.
His grandmother and the cinema. He was sponsored in the film industry
by such luminary Directors of Photography as Peter Suschitzky, Alex Thomson, Alan Hume,
and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor 'Brian Johnson'. His first
permanent address on joining the industry to work on Alien (1979) was a
sleeping bag in Peter Cushing's former studio dressing room for which he is
eternally grateful. During this time he took advantage of advice kindly
offered him by Ray Harryhausen, Lindsay Anderson, and 'Sir Alec Guinness', and went on to work on a
dozen mainstream features in visual effects and camera capacities
before branching off into DP work in television drama and commercials.
He also directed many commercials, most notably in Europe, and acted on
many as visual effects director/DP. During this time he wrote his own
screenplays. The first to be produced was a British television drama
which he wrote, produced and directed, a supernatural story called 'A
Return to Love'. He also operates his own camera, music edits and sound
designs. He designed and directed the 35 visual effects shots for this
project. He is the only person presently alive in the United Kingdom,
in ten years, to have produced, written and directed the sole
independent science-fiction feature film to have been subsequently
given distribution in the United States. This was his debut feature
Alien Blood (1999). He currently lives in the stunningly beautiful English Lake
District with his wife and keeps one eye on the majesty of his native
landscape and the other on Hollywood.