Jon Raymond is an independent filmmaker, writer, and photographer, holding a day job as a web developer in the financial sector.

From 1970 to 1974 he studied photography and film at the Philadelphia College of Art (now known as the University of the Arts, after merging with the then Philadelphia Academy of Performing Arts).
Just a few years prior, David Lynch attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Art a few blocks away. It seems no coincidence that Jon sees filmmaking as an art, as did his college filmmaker friends, and was latter greatly inspired by David Lynch.
Unlike David Lynch, he did not secure a place in the film industry and moved on to eventually join the Air Force in what seemed like a 180-degree turn from his past convictions against the Vietnam War. But it was peacetime and he needed work like most people who join the military. He also found it an adventure and enjoyed seeing the world as a transport flight engineer, until the Gulf War happened. He moved on to graduate school in Communication at the University of Delaware (1991 – 1994), which led to a computer-programming career and then employment in Los Angeles in 2000. There he fell in love again with filmmaking, took on studio extra work and student and short film roles as an actor. He began to write screenplays and then produced and directed his first digital short dramatic and documentary films.

With the presidency of George Bush and then the 2008 election between McCain and Obama, Jon became very interested in politics and took on a grass roots blogging stint with the Huffington Post. His involvements led him to make documentary shorts on the anti-war movement and healthcare reform, with interviews of street protesters, which eventually led to a feature documentary called Got Healthcare?.