Jonah Douglas Henrickson was born in Los Angeles, California on September 5, 1997. He is a son of Eric and April Henrickson, and a brother of Dana and Anya Henrickson.
Jonah had received a diagnosis of autism at the age of 2.
He became interested in making movies at the age of 7, when he saw the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). He mostly wants to be a film director and is inspired by great filmmakers like Steven Spielberg or Guillermo del Toro.
Jonah started making films with Legos and created a stop motion film called LEGO Star Wars: Kenobi vs. Vader (2008) and at the same year he also made other short films using stop motion like Dinosaur Troopers: Battle of the Jungle (2008) and A Journey to Winter Wonderland (2008).
His first two live action short films he made with his friends are Dimensions of Halo (2010) and Game Over (2011). Additionally, he made more short films such as The Zombie Epic Failure Survival Guide (2013), The Chess Tribute (2013), The Handbook Project (2015), and The Bounty Hunter's Assignment (2016).
In 2018, he wanted to take his short films to the next level and started with the production of Mutant Virus (2018).
Eventually he wants to move from the creation of short films to the creation of feature films.