Script Revision Lab / Storylines Lab

Christian Routh is a script analyst 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 ScripTeast, a film development scheme based in Poland supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program, serving Central and Eastern European filmmakers. Over fifty feature films were produced during his time there.

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

From its inception in 2008 until 2012, Christian was head of studies of Four Corners, a European film school initiative. 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, Christian was head of selection at the MEDIA Programme’s European Script Fund and EMDA, in London, from 1989 until 1998. Whilst there, he helped support hundreds of European films and companies, including Toto le héros (1991), Orlando (1992), Breaking the Waves (1996), and Elizabeth (1998). Prior to that he had been a film buyer and development executive with Thorn-EMI, Cannon UK, and Red Rooster Films.