Jonathan VanBallenberghe

Biography

Jonathan is a documentary filmmaker raised in Juneau, Alaska, and now based in Tucson, Arizona. His films have screened at festivals including SXSW, Tribeca (Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary Short), the American Conservation Film Festival, and the Arizona International Film Festival (three-time winner of Best of Arizona). He has received Gold Addy Awards for cinematography, and grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Tucson Pima Arts Council. In 2018, he received a grant from Vision Maker Media for ALMOST AN ISLAND. In 2018-19, he was a Fellow of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona.