Jack Danger Cross & Joanna Cross — a Seattle writer-director-producer duo making films, television, documentary, and novels under one byline.
Capital doesn't own beauty.
Jack Danger Cross & Joanna Cross — a Seattle writer-director-producer duo making films, television, documentary, and novels under one byline.
Capital doesn't own beauty.
Finished work, available to watch.
"That was me on my wedding day in 2016. I was 23." So, what happened? A documentary self-portrait told through one long interview, hundreds of family photographs, and the objects a mother's plan left behind — about surviving, and then building a man from scratch. Deliberately, and with jokes.
⚠ Contains frank discussion of abuse, conversion practices, and suicidal ideation. Nothing is depicted; everything is discussed.
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Two trans artists fall in love across the mailboxes of a Seattle apartment building — until the system cuts off the hormones that keep them whole, and withdrawal turns their new romance into an ordeal. What survives is the film's answer to its title: the elixir was never in the bottle.
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A first-of-its-kind trans-made episodic sitcom. Jack Danger, a transmasc entrepreneur with bipolar disorder, and his wife Joanna, a transfemme spiritual life coach, navigate life together in a Seattle condo during a second global pandemic — alongside Jack's ex-husband-turned-brother Eric, found mother figure Andrea, and transphobic upstairs neighbor Meg. Classic sitcom structure: cold open, three-act escalation, no-learn ending.
Cameras up. No budget, no permission, no problem.
A modern Carmilla. When Sam — butch, settled, and sleepwalking through her Seattle life — invites a blue-haired stranger in out of the rain, she doesn't recognize the mouth from her childhood nightmares. A vampire romance about the love that comes back for you, shot DIY on the equipment we own. Self-produced, zero budget, all teeth.
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Four college students beta-test an augmented-reality haunted-house game in a historic Seattle mansion — and open a door to a higher dimension where a patient, all-consuming spider-god has been waiting for the human race to build her a way in. A horror film in the lineage of The Ring and Hereditary, about the systems that hollow people out and the monster who walks through the hole they make. Designed for independent production in Seattle: seven primary locations, ten speaking roles, practical creature effects.
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A Regime rules from an Ivory Tower built on the bodies of its own children — and two lovers, a battle-hardened soldier and a wild woman raised outside the machine, find each other in a single miraculous night and refuse to let each other go. A classical hero's journey in the lineage of Pan's Labyrinth and Snowpiercer. Companion novel in progress.
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After closing time at a Seattle arcade, two video game characters — a dancer who made herself and a soldier forced to wear the enemy's face — fall in love and risk erasure to escape the machines that made them. True Romance × Romeo + Juliet, scored to Prokofiev rebuilt as arcade synth.
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Decades apart, a father and daughter flee mirror-image nights down the same dark Montana highways — until their timelines meet across a diner booth, where she must offer the man who hurt her something harder than forgiveness to end the cycle for good. Survivor-authored, unsentimental, humane.
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Stratford, 1582. An eighteen-year-old glover's son locks eyes with a farmer's daughter eight years his senior — and the collision produces a secret forty-year writing partnership, the greatest works in the English language, and a love death itself cannot end. He becomes William Shakespeare. She is the reason.
Novels in progress — serialized free on Substack.
The companion novel to the feature — the full world of the Ivory Tower, the forest, and the love that the Regime cannot break.
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A mountain resort, one week, and a rotating cast of first-person narrators — every one of them unreliable. A serialized murder ballad about the stories people tell to survive themselves.
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Two people. One byline.
Writer, director, producer. Born outside Seattle, raised in rural Montana, and built from scratch — deliberately, and with jokes. Jack writes classical hero's journeys for people the world has decided are impossible, and shoots them on his own equipment, in his own home, to prove you don't need money or industry access to make good art.
Co-writer, producer, and the other half of everything. Six feet of blue-haired serenity and the voice behind the camera. Together as J.J. Cross, Jack and Joanna write, direct, shoot, edit, sound-design, and voice-act every project under the Jack Danger Designs LLC banner from their studio in Seattle, WA.