Kim Culetto was born in Basel, Switzerland. He was growing up in the village of Ettingen, BL and Trimmis, GR. Throughout his childhood he experimented with a DV camera his parents gave to him. At the age of 19, he wrote and directed his first short film "Goodbye Beloved One" starring his school friends. After an apprenticeship working as a librarian for a few years, he wrote and directed his feature film debut Bahama Sunrise (2017).