Jon-David is a Puerto Rican Colombian born in America who grew up in the jungle for seven years living in Indonesia before moving to Guangzhou and Tianjin, in China. He attended school in Pennsylvania for two years before completing high school in Romania and Abu Dhabi. A teacher submitted a short film he made in ninth grade to the Eastern European Student Film Festival in Geneva, where he won the Grand Jury Award. This began his love for making movies as he discovered the beauty, magic, and freedom that cinema had to offer. He says, “My feelings haven’t changed since. Call it love or addiction, whatever it is, I can’t stop and won’t stop making films.”