With a professional background covering a wide gamut of roles, Jon Ornoy is a 25-year veteran of the Vancouver film industry, with the creative vision and experience to realize the best of a project's potential. With a passion for every element of the filmmaking process, Jon's comprehensive experience and solid instincts have been honed over the course of more than 50 professional productions.
Equally at home on set or the production office, Jon has experience pitching projects at major festivals like Hot Docs, TIFF and Banff and has successfully received grants from respected organizations like Bravo!Fact and the Shaw/Hot Docs Fund. In 2012, Jon won the CreativeBC/MPPIA pitch contest at the Whistler Film Festival which financed the production of the short film "True Love Waits". In 2020, Jon’s film “All Joking Aside” took home the New Visions Award from the Cinequest Film Festival
Jon is a past board member of the BC chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada.