John Wilson

John Michael Wilson (born October 7, 1986) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is the creator and director of How To with John Wilson, a comedy-docuseries on HBO. Early life and education Wilson was born in Astoria, Queens, and grew up on Long Island. He became interested in film as a teenager when his father gave him a movie camera. Wilson cites Les Blank, George Kuchar and Bruce Brown as influences. Shortly after graduating from high school, Wilson completed a feature film called Jingle Berry. Wilson added the reference to Jingle Berry to his own Wikipedia page in season 2, episode 4 of How To with John Wilson. While attending Binghamton University, Wilson made a short documentary, Looner, about a balloon fetish community. At Binghamton, Wilson joined an a cappella singing group, the Binghamton Crosbys.