Open to conversations with literary representatives, producing partners, and filmmakers drawn to grounded genre and regional stories.
Jonathan Hunter is a former Army officer turned filmmaker creating stories about characters wrestling against -- and at times dismantling at any cost -- systems of power.
Current Development Slate
The Settlers 2023Exiled from the Texas Rangers for his Union loyalties, a legendary lawman risks all he holds dear when President Lincoln recruits him to lead a guerrilla resistance against the Confederacy.
A grieving young man must rally reunited friends in their small Texas town to bring down a data center being developed by a sinister corporation poisoning the land and townspeople with more than just chemicals.
Cold Ground 2025A Hawaiian detective must uncover the connection between a string of missing and murdered native girls on the Big Island and mounting volcanic activity before the crimes erupt further out of control.
Eden Lake 2008A young couple are forced to fight for more than their lives after they stumble into the world of a new, analog cult that runs an AM radio live-broadcasted game show in which unwitting participants are hunted until sunrise.
Jonathan Hunter is a writer-director and former Army officer making grounded dramas and thrillers about land, loyalty, and people confronting powerful institutions. His work spans 1861 Texas, present-day Lockhart, and Hawaiʻi Island. He writes, directs, and produces from Austin, with a focus on regional specificity and moral pressure.