Jonathan Jerzy Carnoy is an American writer and

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currently living and working in

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. Growing up in

Menlo Park, California Menlo Park ( ) is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, California, Eas ...

, he started working seriously in film while attending Colorado College, where he made several short comedic films. Following graduation, he worked in Hollywood as a camera assistant and production assistant on music videos, films and commercials including a stint on

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, as production driver. He then attended

NYU New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-denominational all-male institutio ...

Graduate Film Program where he wrote and directed the award-winning short Dinner with Malibu. He completed his graduate work at the FEMIS Film School in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

where he wrote and directed more award-winning short films. Since then Jon Carnoy went on to direct feature films back in the USA, as well as successful TV series both in the USA and in France. Among his other talents are speaking French, playing the piano, and singing Journey songs.

Filmography

Features

* 2014 : '' The Signal Hill Speed Run'' documentary narrated by

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. * 2005 : '' Pee Stains and Other Disasters'' starring Michael Soll, Steele Justiss, P.J. Soles and

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. * 1998 : '' Mob Queen'' starring

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, Dan Moran, Candis Cayne and

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.New York Times Mob Queen page
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Short films

*2003 : '' Ben Et Thomas'' starring Romain Vissol and Adrien Saint-Joré. *2001 : ''The Barber (Le Barbier)'' starring

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and François Levantal. *1999 : ''The New Unfortunate Adventures Of Alfred The Toad (Les Nouvelles mésaventures d'Alfred le crapaud)'', a series of 5 shorts. *1997 : ''Lucas'' starring Julián Gutiérrez. *1996 : ''The Unfortunate Adventures Of Alfred The Toad (Les Mésaventures d'Alfred le crapaud)'', a series of 5 shorts. *1994 : ''Poisoned Ink'' starring Jon Carnoy. *1993 : ''The Meal (Le Repas)''. *1992 : ''Dinner With Malibu'' starring Brad Merenstein.

Television

*2014 : '' Dreams : 1 Rêve 2 Vies'' for

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on January 6 starring Alice Raucoules and Damien Lauretta. *2008 : '' Ben Et Thomas'' for

France 4 France 4 () is a French free-to-air public television channel. Owned by France Télévisions, the channel is divided into two strands, with children's and family programming under the ''Okoo'' strand airing from 05:00 to 21:00 daily, and arts pr ...

in May starring Antony Marocco and Amezienne Rehaz. *2007 : ''

Sous le soleil ''Sous le soleil'' (''Under the sun''; ) is a French soap opera broadcast on French major channel TF1 from 1996 to 2008. A spin-off, ''Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez'' has been broadcast in French channel TMC since 2013. Broadcast It has been a ...

'' (3 episodes: 19, 20, 21 from season 12) for

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*2003 : '' The Real World: Paris'' for

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References

External links

*
A Jon Carnoy site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carnoy, Jon American television directors French-language film directors Living people People from Menlo Park, California Film directors from California Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Tisch School of the Arts alumni La Fémis alumni