Writer · Director
Lee
Shelton
Drama. Romance. Culture.
A writer-director telling emotionally complex stories rooted in culture and carried by music — from feature films to viral series.
A writer-director telling emotionally complex stories rooted in culture and carried by music — from feature films to viral series.
Lee Shelton is a writer-director whose films center faith, family, and the fullness of culture. He writes, directs, and scores his own stories — and builds the worlds they live in, from his own Houston studio.
His feature Love Mountain, a romantic drama carried by a Billboard-charting original soundtrack, and the rom-com Don't Pop That Balloon: The Movie reveal a filmmaker at home with both tenderness and comedy. His viral series Don't Pop It has drawn 350M+ views — an instinct for stories audiences can't stop watching.
A novelist as well as a filmmaker, he adapts his own Love Mountain books for the screen, and is seeking representation to bring that voice to a wider audience.
I make films about faith, family, and the beautiful, complicated business of loving people. My stories are rooted in culture and carried by music — soul, rhythm, and the sound of home.
Before the film, there was the page. Love Mountain began as a three-volume novel series written by Lee Shelton — the origin and expanding canon of what he calls the Love Mountain Cinematic Universe.
Volume III became the feature film; Volumes 01 & 02 are being adapted as a vertical drama series. The story keeps growing across the page and the screen.
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End to end, on my own terms — I develop, cast, build the sets, and shoot in a 4,000 sq ft Houston studio with a 45-foot infinity wall, in front of live audiences. The vision on the page reaches the screen without compromise.
Seeking representation as a writer-director — open to features, series, and staffing.