Arnon Manor
An experienced and highly motivated independent visual effects executive, with a unique and established international filmmaking career.
Merging a strong background in the arts, production and management, Arnon combines astute business acumen with a highly creative eye. He now brings his focus and experience to filmmakers, studios, production companies, financiers and film productions, big and small, that need visual effects support at every stage of production, from script to delivery. This includes:
- Setting up the visual effects for success from the start
- Helping with all creative and technical aspects
- Budgeting to a number; managing for cost reductions and finding efficiencies
- Planning a viable tax rebate/incentive plan
- Finding the right visual effects facilities and visual effects HOD team
- Helping with the visual effects workflow during production and post
- And of course, helping to deliver the visual effects work when shit hits the fan!
Until April 2025, Arnon was Senior Vice President of Visual Effects Production at Sony Pictures in Culver City, California. His distinctive career saw him start as a visual effects artist in Europe, rising to supervisor and producer in Los Angeles, culminating with 14 years as a senior studio executive. During that time, Arnon has collaborated with some of the industry’s most talented filmmakers across the globe, bringing international experience and sensibilities to his work.
As an executive at Sony, Arnon was responsible for overseeing the visual effects on the studio’s feature projects across its labels, leading the films from development, production, to delivery. This included managing the creative, budget, schedule, legal and marketing aspects of the visual effects work, collaborating very closely with the filmmakers, fellow studio executives and visual effects facilities worldwide.
A recognized industry leader, Arnon was a board member of the Visual Effects Society until 2024, where he established the Society’s Education Committee, with the purpose of creating opportunities and increasing diversity and inclusion in visual effects through education and mentorship. Arnon continuously mentors and collaborates with professionals, schools and other industry organizations to promote production and visual effects education. Arnon was honored as a VES Fellow in 2024.
His fight for social justice was highlighted by a Peabody Award for directing and producing Cops and Robbers, a Black Lives Matter-themed animated short for Netflix in 2020.
Arnon is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Production & Technology Branch, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society.
