Background
Cannon was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 21 years old, to attend the American Film Institute.
Cannon was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 21 years old, to attend the American Film Institute.
He also studied at Franklin & Marshall College, Vassar College, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and in the United Kingdom at the University of East Anglia.
He separated from the American Film Institute in 2005. In 2007 came American High School, a feature-comedy he wrote and directed, starring Laguna Beach alum Talan Torriero, with Danity Kane"s Aubrey O"Day. The movie also stars Pirates of the Caribbean"s Martin Klebba and American Pie"s Nikki Ziering.
Cannon"s films, while not sequential, are almost always based around a female protagonist, against the world, with a dysfunctional family & romantic life.