Writer · Producer · Kingston / Toronto

Writer, Producer.

Jonathan McCreery writes and produces character-driven independent film. The 2025 feature Still Alive in Kingston — a made-in-Ontario comedy starring Bill Welychka — is finished, premiered, and available to buy or rent now.

Watch on Amazon The picture

2025Feature released

KCFFWorld premiere

TFSToronto Film School

Night street evoking Still Alive in Kingston

Now playing — Still Alive in Kingston

Produced feature

A picture that left the drive.

Feature comedy · 88 minutes · Canada · 2025

Still Alive in Kingston

Washed-up ex-MuchMusic star Bill Welychka hits a personal and professional low. With his estranged ex-producer — and ex-wife — Amy, he tries to ride a wave of ’90s nostalgia back to work, and stumbles into the live-music city he actually lives in.

Producer — Jonathan McCreery Writer, producer — Jay Middaugh Shot in Kingston World premiere · KCFF 2025

Starring Bill Welychka, Anna Sudac, Jesse MacMillan
Also featuring Rob Baker, Rick Campanelli, and Kingston’s working music scene

This is the credit that matters first: a completed independent feature, festival-premiered, now on sale to the public. Not a deck. Not a spec. A movie you can buy tonight.

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Position

Creative who can close.

Studios do not need another person who “lives for story.” They need someone who can hold tone, manage people, protect a budget, and still put a surprising scene on the page — then get the file to an audience.

Still Alive in Kingston is that proof. Local cast and crew, a recognizable lead, a contained Ontario shoot, a festival premiere, and a finished picture for sale. That is producing.

The work I want next sits where character comedy and lean genre already live: human stakes, practical production, less CGI flex, more story that survives a schedule.

Finished, not theoretical

A feature in the market beats a hundred treatments. I produce work that can be shot, locked, and sold.

Makeable scale

Locations you can lock. Casts you can afford. Set pieces that play in-camera. Designed for indie slates, not a visual-effects committee.

Operator instincts

Twenty years in brand narrative and operations. Ontario marketing for a GM protection product. Agency copy written and cleared under legal review.

Room manners

Collaborative, not precious. Notes are a production tool. The goal is the best version that can still shoot on Monday.

Writing

Scripts built to travel.

Samples available on request. The produced feature is public; the specs stay in the room.

Half-hour comedy spec · Series

Our Next Contestant

A cancelled soap star and her unemployed babysitter claw for relevance in the humiliating machinery of fame — game-show auditions, bad agents, and a father who still owns the house.

Dark comedy Two-hander Makeable interiors

Feature · Thriller noir

Vicious

A thriller that uses comedy the way a blade uses shine — you feel bad for laughing, which is the point.

Neo-noir Elevated genre

“McCreery’s keen sense of timing and subtext bring this thriller noir to life.” T.C. Ellsworth

Coming-of-age adventure · Contained genre

The Quarry

Three misfit kids find a door at the bottom of an abandoned quarry and walk into the last summer of childhood — and a crime they were never meant to see.

Practical locations Ontario production

Track record

Not a mood board. A work history.

Producer

Still Alive in Kingston

2025 feature comedy. World premiere at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. Now available to buy or rent on Amazon. Written and produced by Jay Middaugh. Starring Bill Welychka.

Corporate / Agency

GMAC · MacLaren McCann

Dealer programs and Ontario marketing for GM protection products. Agency copy written and cleared under legal in Toronto.

Script pages, budget sheet, walkie, slate

Available to work.

Looking for a producing seat or a writers’ room on story-driven features and half-hours. Canada or the U.S. I travel. I start.

Best first conversation: the next picture, a staffing need, or a request for samples. Watch the one that already exists.

Watch the film jonathan@jmccreery.com

Representation inquiries welcome. Writing samples on request.