Jon Drever | |
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 Drever in June 2015 | |
| Born | Jon Giuseppe Drever 29 June 1979 |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
Jon Giuseppe Drever (born 29 June 1979) [1] is a British director, producer and screenwriter, mostly working in comedy genre. [2] He is best known for his collaborations with comedian Brett Goldstein, which include the low-budget feature film SuperBob (2015).
Together with his business partner, Orlando von Einsiedel, [3] Drever co-founded the production company, Grain Media, which produced the Academy Award, Emmy and BAFTA-nominated feature-length documentary Virunga (2014), released on Netflix. [4] [5] He sold his half of the company in 2018 to concentrate on making comedy, working with comedy stars like Ross Noble, Aisling Bea, Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, Javone Prince and more. [2]
His directorial feature debut, SuperBob, was released in 2015 and starred Brett Goldstein (with whom he went to the same school in Sutton) [6] as a Peckham postman-turned-superhero and Catherine Tate as his boss. [7] [8] [9] It received four-star reviews from The Times , Evening Standard, Empire [10] and Den of Geek . [11] Drever described the film as "a gentle, upbeat, positive and funny romantic story about a man who learns to fight for what's important". [12]
Drever and Goldstein continued working together after SuperBob, making short films Bullet to the Heart (2016), co-starring Aisling Bea, and Spectre of Shame (2018), with Goldstein as James Bond attending a sex addiction meeting. [13] [14]
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | SuperBob | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Original three-minute short film |
| 2014 | Virunga | No | Yes | No | No | Executive producer |
| 2015 | SuperBob | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Creator |
| 2016 | Bullet to the Heart | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film starring and co-written with Brett Goldstein and Aisling Bea |
| 2017 | Ross Noble: Off Road | Yes | No | No | No | Three-part series |
| 2018 | Spectre of Shame | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Short film starring and written by Goldstein |
| Password | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Short film starring and written by Joe Wilkinson | |
| 2019 | The Tool | Yes | No | No | No | Web pilot episode starring Javone Prince |
| 2020 | Trevor | Yes | No | No | No | Short film |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | FilmQuest Awards | Best Screenplay (shared with Brett Goldstein and Will Bridges) | SuperBob | Won | [15] |
| Best of Fest | Nominated | [16] | |||
| FirstGlance Film Festival | Best Feature Length | Won | [16] | ||
| Best Science Fiction Film | Won | [16] | |||
| Crystal Palace International Film Festival | Best Comedy | Won | [16] | ||
| Best Feature Film | Nominated | [16] | |||
| Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special (shared with Leonardo DiCaprio and other producers) | Virunga | Nominated | [17] |
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