Jason is an award winning filmmaker, writer, occasional actor and sometimes stand-up comedian based in the West Country. He is currently part of Funny Features, Glasgow Film Festival’s comedy feature scheme with his screenplay Mister Uterus, developed with BFI Film Fund, Delaval Films and Tigerlily Productions.

He is also writing his first play as part of the Soho Theatre Writers Lab. In 2023, he was selected for the BBC Writers Voices 2023 (one of 72 from over 5000 scripts submitted!) and was on the Bafta X BFI Flare mentoring scheme in 2022.

Recent films and writing

  • Water's Edge (2024, short film, Writer/Director)

    I was commissioned by Bristol School of Acting to write and direct a short film with third year student actors.

    In near future rural Somerset, recently “re-educated” Anna wants to be a happily married woman but the arrival of a troupe of travelling players on the farm tests her beliefs to the limit.

  • The Piss Witch (2022, short film, Writer/Director)

    Funded by BFI Network, written as part of the BFI Network New Writers Lab

    Selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI Flare, Encounters Shorts Film Festival and nominated for Best British Short at the Iris Prize.

    The mess of puberty meets rural myth when Claire learns the power of rebellion.

  • A Deal with the Universe (2018, feature documentary, Director)

    ★★★★ “Winningly candid, refreshing and moving” – The Times


    ★★★★ “Epically Joyful” – Financial Times


    ★★★★ “Touching, compelling love story” – The Observer


    https://www.delavalfilm.com/films/a-deal-with-the-universe/

Older Projects

  • Adventures in Time and Gender (2020, podcast, Writer)



    A podcast series developed in collaboration with young trans people.

    A young non-binary person and a talking Suitcase travel through time, space and Ikea in search of trans history.

    https://adventuresintimeandgender.org/

  • Chopsticks (2018, radio play, co-Writer and Actor)

    Radio play commissioned by BBC Radio 4, co-written with Ellie Kendrick.

  • Silly Girl (2017, short film, co-Writer and Actor)

    Directed by Hope Dickson Leach, Written with Ellie Kendrick, based on the short play that she wrote and I performed in at The Royal Court.

Older films

  • St Pelagius the Penitent (1997, short documentary, Director)

    Selected for the Berlin Film Festival, won Best Documentary at Tampere Short Film Festival.

    A film about five trans, intersex and genderqueer friends and a medieval saint.

  • Subterranean Homesick Blues (1999. short documentary, Director)

    Selected for the Berlin Film Festival.

    Part animated documentary, shot on super8 about growing up queer in the countryside.

  • Millennium Man (2001, short documentary, Director)

    Selected for the Berlin Film Festival.

    A short documentary about my transition

  • Flower Arranging for Beginners (2004, short fiction, Writer/Director)

    A short film about friendship

Other work

  • Script development

    Reader for the Uncertain Kingdom, and BFI Network. Script Editor/Mentor supporting women and non-binary led filmmaking teams developing feature films through the Attagirl scheme.

  • Festival Programming

    Former producer of Queer Vision Film Festival, Former programmer for BFI Flare (2008 - 2016), FilmBath Festival and Programme Consultant for The BFI London Film Festival

  • Workshops

    Upcoming workshops - storyboarding your film for Poet/Filmmakers and Queer Storytelling for filmmakers in the South West