Christian Routh

Christian is a film and series consultant based in Catalonia, Spain. From there, he works for various international filmmakers, state institutions, and training programs.

For 15 years until 2022, he was co-head of studies of the Creative Europe-supported development scheme, Scripteast, based in Poland, serving Central and Eastern European filmmakers. Over fifty feature films have been produced during his time there.

Recently, he has been tutoring at screenwriting workshops in the US, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Greece, England, Ireland, and Spain, either online or in-person. In 2019, he co-created and co-led an MA in Screenwriting at Pinewood Film Studios in the UK. He has also been working regularly with national funding agencies in Eastern Europe, with events in Czechia, Slovakia, Macedonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. For 15 years, he was a tutor at the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam. And in 2012, he initiated the first Hezayah screenwriting workshops for the Doha Film Institute, which he tutored for 5 years.

From its inception in 2008 until 2012, he was head of studies of a European film school initiative called Four Corners. Before that, he held the same post at the Pilots drama series workshops in Sitges, Spain. In 2006, Christian was the co-author of a book called Script Development.

Before moving to Spain in 2000 from his native London, he was head of selection at the MEDIA Programme’s European Script Fund and EMDA from 1989 until 1998. Whilst there, he helped support hundreds of European films and companies, including Toto le Hero, Orlando, Breaking the Waves, and Elizabeth. Prior to that, he had been a film buyer and development executive with Thorn-EMI, Cannon UK, and Red Rooster Films.