>>> Christian Routh
Before moving to Spain from his native London in 2000, he was Head of Selection at the MEDIA backed European Script Fund, and EMDA, from its inception in 1989, until 1999. Whilst there he helped develop hundreds of European films and programmes, including “Toto le Hero”, “Orlando”, “Breaking the waves”, and “Elisabeth”. Prior to that he had been a film buyer and development executive with Thorn-EMI, Cannon, and Red Rooster Films.
Christian is the Head of Studies at the CO-PILOT development workshops in Barcelona, Spain, where short intensive courses are regularly held in feature film, television, and mobile content projects. Between 2002 and 2005 he held the same role at the MEDIA Programme’s PILOTS Television Fiction Screenwriting workshops, held in Sitges.
Christian is the co-author, with the late Dagmar Benke, of a new book called SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT, published by UVK, Germany. He acts as a consultant, lecturer, screenwriter, and script editor, for various European production companies, state agencies, and film schools, including the MEDIA Programme, and the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam, where he has been teaching regularly for over ten years.
