Jonathan Andre Culliton
writer - director - producer
Jonathan Andre Culliton is a Boston-born, British Columbia-based trans filmmaker and comedy writer. Culliton is the creator of “Bombshell,” a digital series about a single trans man navigating LA’s dating world, available on Amazon. Culliton is the director and co-writer of “Spookable,” a horror comedy short starring Alexandra Grey and produced by Zackary Drucker. It was selected by Lillly Wachowski for Maryland Film Festival and is now available for streaming on OTV. His film “Willa Justice: Drag Queen Private Eye” was a recipient of the Out on Film Filmmaker Fund Grant. Both films continue to tour around the world.
His first foray into the documentary world, “Minister Chucky,” co-directed with husband Graham Kolbeins, has played at Queer Screams and OutfestNEXT. He is currently producing a feature length documentary about schizophrenic multi-disciplinary artist Linda Sibio.
Culliton also has decades of experience as talent. Getting his start as a child in Boston’s theater scene, Culliton started hosting the Girl Scout Show on cable access television when he was eleven years old. He hosts “The Trans Cinematic Universe,” an immersive deep dive into trans and queer cinema. Culliton makes appearances in the Agender music video “Top Bottom Top,” (Outfest 2022), and “American Masculinity,” a trans masc art exhibit funded by Tom of Finland.
Along with Kolbeins, Culliton is founder and curator of the 29 Queer Film Festival, a collaboration with the tourism board of Twentynine Palms, CA. 29QFF is an immersive, multi-media festival designed to showcase and celebrate desert-based filmmakers with unique elements like drag performances, themed snacks from the films, and prop exhibits.
Culliton lives on a beautiful Canadian island with his husband Graham and their two beloved cats, Puma and Lynx. He is a sports fanatic who enjoys cooking, playing softball with fellow queers, and obsessing over Gilmore Girls.
jonathanandreculliton@gmail.com
“Jon is a brilliantly cracked filmmaker who has done and is doing projects that are/will be understood as absolute gems of trans culture. Also a TRUE delight of a human.”
-Scott Turner Schofield (Emmy-nominated actor, producer, trans activist)