Jon Sorensen

Biography

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 branch...