Christian Routh is a script analyst based in Catalonia, Spain. 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, serving Central and Eastern European filmmakers. Over fifty feature films were produced during his time there. 

In recent years, he has been tutoring at screenwriting workshops across the world. In 2019, he co-created and co-led an M.A. 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, 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 the first HEZAYAH screenwriting workshops for the Doha Film Institute, which he led 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. 

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’. Before that, he had been a film buyer and development executive with Thorn-EMI, Cannon UK, and Red Rooster Films.