Faculty Bio

Jon Hammond Department of Graduate Film Tisch Asia Phone: (+65) 6500-1753 Email: jh179@nyu.edu Office: Room 04-09

Biography

Jon was born and bred in London. He began his film career 20 years ago as an Assistant, then Dubbing Editor at the BBC’s Ealing and Lime Grove studios.

He subsequently attended The National Film and Television School’s Editing course, graduating in 1994. Then worked as Associate Editor on the feature films: The Revenger’s Comedies (Dir. Malcolm Mowbray), Gabriel & Me (Dir. Udayan Prasad), and Get Real (Dir. Simon Shore), winner of the audience prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

He has also edited shorts, corporates and a variety of Documentaries and Dramas, for British TV. Including episodes for long running series; The Bill, Casualty and a children’s comedy, Barking. Jon has previously worked in Singapore in 2002, editing a documentary about the Chinese actress/director Joan Chen, for Discovery Channel Asia. Most recently he worked on the feature film, Far North, (Dir. Asif Kapadia).

Jon has taught editing at a variety of film schools around the world, including, the NFTS, LFS and LFA in the UK, the IFS in Köln, Germany and the EICTV in San Antonio, Cuba.